Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag has occurred near Pucallpa in Peru

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Pucallpa in Peru. Exact location of event, longitude -74.35 West, latitude -8.6125 South, depth = 149.26 km. The temblor was detected at 21:28:58 / 9:28 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 04/05/17 / 2017-05-04 02:28:58 / May 4, 2017 @ 2:28 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 149.26 km (93 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us10008p44. Ids that are associated to the event: us10008p44. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Campoverde, Pucallpa (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 34 km (21 miles) from Pucallpa (c. 310 800 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Campoverde (c. 8 900 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. 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 fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. 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: 34 km SE of Pucallpa, Peru.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-74.35° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-8.6125° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	149.26 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	34km SE of Pucallpa, Peru	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-05-04 02:28:58	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-05-04 02:56:27	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	4.7	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	1.849	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.07 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	80	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	us10008p44	Id of event.
Event Code	10008p44	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10008p44,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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