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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag was detected near Zorritos in Peru

Posted by admin on March 21, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location -3.6911S, -80.8815WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) strikes 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Zorritos in Peru on Monday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 27.84 km (17 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -80.8815 West, latitude -3.6911 South, depth = 27.84 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 21/03/17 / 2017-03-21 04:29:11 / March 21, 2017 @ 4:29 am. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:29:11 / 11:29 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us20008tgi. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20008tgi.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 50 km (31 miles) from Tumbes (c. 109 200 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Huaquillas (c. 39 800 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from La Breita (c. 17 700 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Zarumilla (c. 16 900 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Zorritos (c. 12 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from El Alto (c. 9 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Aguas Verdes (c. 9 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Huaquillas, Aguas Verdes, El Alto (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Ecuador (c. 14 791 000 pop), Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 22 km W of Zorritos, Peru. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -80.8815° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -3.6911° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 27.84 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22km W of Zorritos, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-03-21 04:29:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-03-21 04:52:39 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 355 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 1.144 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 116 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us20008tgi Id of event.
Event Code 20008tgi An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20008tgi, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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