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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 64 km WNW of Morrope, Peru


Earthquake location -6.3457S, -80.563WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 64 kilometers (40 miles) from Morrope in Peru. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/05/18 / 2018-05-25 14:21:33 / May 25, 2018 @ 2:21 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 09:21:33 / 9:21 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000ec1p. Unique identifier: us1000ec1p. Exact location, longitude -80.563° West, latitude -6.3457° South, depth = 73.96 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 73.96 km (46 miles).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Santa Rosa, Chiclayo, Sechura (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop). Event epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) from Chiclayo (c. 577 400 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Lambayeque (c. 43 700 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Ferreñafe (c. 34 400 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Sechura (c. 23 000 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Pimentel (c. 15 600 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Santa Rosa (c. 10 600 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 64 km WNW of Morrope, Peru.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -80.563° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.3457° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 73.96 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 64km WNW of Morrope, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-05-25 14:21:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-15 08:23:33 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 284 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 2.823 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 169 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 us1000ec1p Id of event.
Event Code 1000ec1p An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000ec1p, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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