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Moderate earthquake 5.2 mag, 25 km SE of Minas de Marcona, Peru

Posted by admin on September 25, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -15.3832S, -74.9536WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Minas de Marcona in Peru. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/09/18 / 2018-09-25 22:56:47 / September 25, 2018 @ 10:56 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us2000hjzl. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000hjzl. The 5.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:56:47 / 5:56 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -74.9536 West, latitude -15.3832 South, depth = 51.72 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 51.72 km (32 miles).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Palpa, Nazca, Minas de Marcona (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from Nazca (c. 23 600 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Minas de Marcona (c. 15 500 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Palpa (c. 5 900 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year.

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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: 25 km SE of Minas de Marcona, Peru. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -74.9536° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -15.3832° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 51.72 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 25km SE of Minas de Marcona, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-09-25 22:56:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-25 23:16:43 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 416 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 3.842 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.89 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 131 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000hjzl Id of event.
Event Code 2000hjzl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000hjzl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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