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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 30 km SE of Catacaos, Peru

Posted by admin on December 22, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location -5.4215S, -80.4563WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Catacaos in Peru. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -80.4563 West, latitude -5.4215 South, depth = 10 km. The temblor was detected at 22:57:04 / 10:57 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 22/12/17 / 2017-12-22 03:57:04 / December 22, 2017 @ 3:57 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000buw7. Unique identifier: us1000buw7.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Las Lomas, Paita, Salinera Colán (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 32 km (20 miles) from Piura (c. 325 500 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Sullana (c. 160 800 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Chulucanas (c. 68 800 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Catacaos (c. 57 300 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Paita (c. 56 200 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from La Unión (c. 34 800 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Tambo Grande (c. 30 000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 occurred nearby.

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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: 30 km SE of Catacaos, Peru.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -80.4563° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.4215° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 30km SE of Catacaos, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-12-22 03:57:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-22 04:20:15 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 326 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 1.901 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.92 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 158 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 us1000buw7 Id of event.
Event Code 1000buw7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000buw7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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