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Minor earthquake: M3.4 quake has struck near Mala in Peru

Posted by admin on August 17, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -12.9626S, -76.9834WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) was reported 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Mala in Peru on Friday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 45.54 km (28 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/08/18 / 2018-08-17 07:05:47 / August 17, 2018 @ 7:05 am. Exact location of event, longitude -76.9834 West, latitude -12.9626 South, depth = 45.54 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000gb9b. Unique identifier: us1000gb9b. The temblor was picked up at 02:05:47 / 2:05 am (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Imperial (c. 32 300 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Nuevo Imperial (c. 32 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from San Vicente de Cañete (c. 25 500 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Mala (c. 17 300 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Chilca (c. 12 900 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Nuevo Imperial, Imperial, San Bartolo (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 50 km SW of Mala, Peru.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -76.9834° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -12.9626° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 45.54 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 50km SW of Mala, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-08-17 07:05:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-17 09:19:03 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 2.7 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 178 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 0.979 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.92 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 230 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 us1000gb9b Id of event.
Event Code 1000gb9b An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000gb9b, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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