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Moderate earthquake 5.4 mag, 20 km NW of Tocache Nuevo, Peru


Earthquake location -8.0755S, -76.6595WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Tocache Nuevo in Peru. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 08/05/17 / 2017-05-08 08:08:21 / May 8, 2017 @ 8:08 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us10008qfh. Unique identifier: us10008qfh. Exact location, longitude -76.6595° West, latitude -8.0755° South, depth = 38.04 km. The temblor was detected at 03:08:21 / 3:08 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 38.04 km (24 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Juanjuí, Huicungo, Uchiza (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 100 km (62 miles) from Juanjuí (c. 37 700 pop), 20 km (12 miles) from Tocache (c. 29 000 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Uchiza (c. 17 700 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Huicungo (c. 6 800 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop).

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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 20 km NW of Tocache Nuevo, Peru.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -76.6595° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.0755° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 38.04 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20km NW of Tocache Nuevo, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-05-08 08:08:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-05-08 08:28:22 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 449 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 3.891 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 107 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 us10008qfh Id of event.
Event Code 10008qfh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008qfh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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