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Moderate earthquake 5.6 mag, 89 km WNW of Camana, Peru

Posted by admin on August 11, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location -16.303S, -73.4796WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 89 kilometers (55 miles) from Camana in Peru. Event id: us2000a7gq. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000a7gq. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/08/17 / 2017-08-11 21:45:09 / August 11, 2017 @ 9:45 pm. The temblor was picked up at 16:45:09 / 4:45 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 34.74 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -73.4796 West, latitude -16.303 South, depth = 34.74 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Camaná (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 89 km (56 miles) from Camaná (c. 16 400 pop). 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 two and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 89 km WNW of Camana, Peru.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -73.4796° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -16.303° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 34.74 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 89km WNW of Camana, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-08-11 21:45:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-08-11 22:05:29 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 2 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.06 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 483 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 3.634 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.86 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 121 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 us2000a7gq Id of event.
Event Code 2000a7gq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000a7gq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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