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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag has occurred near Chimbote in Peru

Posted by admin on January 28, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location -9.3088S, -78.8847WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) strikes 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Chimbote in Peru on Saturday. The temblor was detected at 01:42:32 / 1:42 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us10007vwu. Event ids that are associated: us10007vwu. The epicenter was at a depth of 45.98 km (29 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/01/17 / 2017-01-28 06:42:32 / January 28, 2017 @ 6:42 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -78.8847 West, latitude -9.3088 South, depth = 45.98 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Virú, Puerto Santa, Coishco (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 42 km (26 miles) from Chimbote (c. 317 000 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Virú (c. 20 800 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Coishco (c. 15 100 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Puerto Santa (c. 14 100 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 41 km SW of Chimbote, Peru. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -78.8847° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -9.3088° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 45.98 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 41km SW of Chimbote, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-01-28 06:42:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-28 07:07:21 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 4 The total number of felt reports
CDI 5.3 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 434 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.334 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.02 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 65 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10007vwu Id of event.
Event Code 10007vwu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007vwu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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