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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Lluta in Peru


Earthquake location -16.0812S, -72.1339WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was reported 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Lluta in Peru on Friday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 94.36 km (59 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 13:48:30 / 1:48 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us1000e32f. Event ids that are associated: us1000e32f. Exact location of event, longitude -72.1339 West, latitude -16.0812 South, depth = 94.36 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 11/05/18 / 2018-05-11 18:48:30 / May 11, 2018 @ 6:48 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Orcopampa, Camaná, Arequipa (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 73 km (45 miles) from Arequipa (c. 841 100 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Camaná (c. 16 400 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Lluta (c. 6 000 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Yura (c. 5 700 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Orcopampa (c. 5 600 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. 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 twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 14 km WSW of Lluta, Peru. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -72.1339° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -16.0812° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 94.36 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km WSW of Lluta, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-05-11 18:48:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-11 19:08:41 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 2.849 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 121 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 us1000e32f Id of event.
Event Code 1000e32f An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000e32f, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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