Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag was detected near Mollendo in Peru

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) was reported 92 kilometers (57 miles) from Mollendo in Peru on Thursday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 8.9 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/04/17 / 2017-04-06 17:15:23 / April 6, 2017 @ 5:15 pm. The temblor was detected at 12:15:23 / 12:15 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us10008f94. Unique identifier: us10008f94. Exact location of earthquake, -72.4852° West, -17.7221° South, depth 8.9 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 92 km (57 miles) from Mollendo (c. 29 000 pop), 105 km (65 miles) from Cocachacra (c. 8 800 pop), 96 km (59 miles) from Punta de Bombón (c. 6 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cocachacra, Punta de Bombón, Mollendo (min 5000 pop).

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 have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 92 km SSW of Mollendo, Peru.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-72.4852° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-17.7221° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8.9 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	92km SSW of Mollendo, Peru	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-04-06 17:15:23	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-04-06 17:35:51	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		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	416	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	2.138	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.65 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	132	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	us10008f94	Id of event.
Event Code	10008f94	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10008f94,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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