Moderate earthquake, 5.6 mag was detected near Satipo in Peru

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Satipo in Peru. Exact location of event, longitude -74.5659 West, latitude -10.7082 South, depth = 20.59 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000a7ta. Id of event: us2000a7ta. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 13/08/17 / 2017-08-13 16:51:22 / August 13, 2017 @ 4:51 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 20.59 km (13 miles). The temblor was reported at 11:51:22 / 11:51 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Ramón, Oxapampa, Villa Rica (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from Satipo (c. 15 500 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from San Ramón (c. 14 700 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Oxapampa (c. 12 000 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Villa Rica (c. 7 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Perené (c. 6 800 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Mazamari (c. 6 800 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 three and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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: 60 km N of Satipo, Peru.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-74.5659° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-10.7082° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	20.59 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	60km N of Satipo, Peru	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-08-13 16:51:22	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-08-13 21:32:51	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	482	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	2.569	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.87 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	65	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	us2000a7ta	Id of event.
Event Code	2000a7ta	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000a7ta,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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