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Minor earthquake, 3.7 mag strikes near Mollendo in Peru

Posted by admin on April 2, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -16.9123S, -71.8463WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Mollendo in Peru. Exact location of earthquake, -71.8463° West, -16.9123° South, depth 68.88 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 68.88 km (43 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000dcnq. Id of event: us1000dcnq. Global time and date of event 02/04/18 / 2018-04-02 14:10:43 / April 2, 2018 @ 2:10 pm UTC/GMT. The 3.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:10:43 / 9:10 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 66 km (41 miles) from Arequipa (c. 841 100 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Mollendo (c. 29 000 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Cocachacra (c. 8 800 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Punta de Bombón (c. 6 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Yura (c. 5 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yura, Arequipa, Punta de Bombón (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 21 km NE of Mollendo, Peru.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.8463° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -16.9123° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 68.88 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km NE of Mollendo, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-04-02 14:10:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-02 21:55:25 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 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 2.226 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.43 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 270 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000dcnq Id of event.
Event Code 1000dcnq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000dcnq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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