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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Puerto Santa in Peru

Posted by admin on June 20, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -9.1657S, -78.8477WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Puerto Santa in Peru on Wednesday. Exact time and date of earthquake 20/06/18 / 2018-06-20 19:47:48 / June 20, 2018 @ 7:47 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:47:48 / 2:47 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 62.68 km (39 miles). Exact location of event, depth 62.68 km, -78.8477° West, -9.1657° South. Id of earthquake: us1000ewsc. Event ids that are associated: us1000ewsc.

Event epicenter was 31 km (19 miles) from Chimbote (c. 317 000 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Virú (c. 20 800 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Coishco (c. 15 100 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Puerto Santa (c. 14 100 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Virú, Chimbote, Coishco (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 13,000 light 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 one and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 29 km SW of Puerto Santa, Peru. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -78.8477° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -9.1657° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 62.68 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 29km SW of Puerto Santa, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-06-20 19:47:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-20 20:21:29 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 326 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 3.427 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.72 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 144 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 us1000ewsc Id of event.
Event Code 1000ewsc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000ewsc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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