Moderate earthquake: M5.4 quake has struck near Acari in Peru

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 48 kilometers (30 miles) from Acari in Peru. Exact location of event, depth 23.36 km, -74.6417° West, -15.8704° South. The temblor was picked up at 09:23:51 / 9:23 am (local time epicenter). 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: 30/01/18 / 2018-01-30 14:23:51 / January 30, 2018 @ 2:23 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000cr9m. Id of event: us2000cr9m. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 23.36 km (15 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Minas de Marcona (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 89 km (55 miles) from Minas de Marcona (c. 15 500 pop). Nearby 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. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days nineteen 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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 48 km S of Acari, Peru.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-74.6417° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-15.8704° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	23.36 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	48km S of Acari, Peru	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-01-30 14:23:51	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-01-30 14:41:26	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	449	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	4.411	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.75 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	89	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	us2000cr9m	Id of event.
Event Code	2000cr9m	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000cr9m,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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