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Minor earthquake, 3.7 mag was detected near Ascope in Peru

Posted by admin on January 22, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -7.7818S, -78.8945WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) was reported 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Ascope in Peru on Monday. Exact location of earthquake, -78.8945° West, -7.7818° South, depth 75.13 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 22/01/18 / 2018-01-22 07:50:35 / January 22, 2018 @ 7:50 am UTC/GMT. The 3.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:50:35 / 2:50 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 75.13 km (47 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000cmrj. Unique identifier: us2000cmrj.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pacasmayo, Chepén, Cajamarca (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 40 km (25 miles) from Trujillo (c. 747 500 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Cajamarca (c. 135 000 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Chepén (c. 42 000 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Chocope (c. 32 400 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Pacasmayo (c. 29 200 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Laredo (c. 24 700 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 24 km ESE of Ascope, Peru. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -78.8945° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -7.7818° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 75.13 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24km ESE of Ascope, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-01-22 07:50:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-22 22:33:22 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 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 211 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 3.549 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 188 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 us2000cmrj Id of event.
Event Code 2000cmrj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000cmrj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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