Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Pucallpa in Peru

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 43 kilometers (27 miles) from Pucallpa in Peru. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000bj0p. Id of event: us2000bj0p. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/11/17 / 2017-11-05 22:49:35 / November 5, 2017 @ 10:49 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -74.3557 West, latitude -8.7188 South, depth = 152.63 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:49:35 / 5:49 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 152.63 km (95 miles).

Close country/countries, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 44 km (27 miles) from Pucallpa (c. 310 800 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Campoverde (c. 8 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Campoverde, Pucallpa (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 eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 43 km SSE of Pucallpa, Peru. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-74.3557° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-8.7188° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	152.63 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	43km SSE 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	2017-11-05 22:49:35	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-11-05 23:01:33	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	385	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	1.906	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.82 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	101	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	us2000bj0p	Id of event.
Event Code	2000bj0p	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000bj0p,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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