Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag has occurred near Checca in Peru

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) was reported 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Checca in Peru on Thursday. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location, longitude -71.5887° West, latitude -14.5578° South, depth = 10 km. Unique identifier: us1000h7da. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000h7da. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 20:46:01 / 8:46 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/10/18 / 2018-10-05 01:46:01 / October 5, 2018 @ 1:46 am.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Urcos, Sicuani (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 51 km (31 miles) from Sicuani (c. 33 600 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Urcos (c. 5 500 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. 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 has occurred nearby.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 23 km WSW of Checca, Peru.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-71.5887° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-14.5578° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	23km WSW of Checca, Peru	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-10-05 01:46:01	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-10-05 02:03:04	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	432	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	3.632	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.96 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	115	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	us1000h7da	Id of event.
Event Code	1000h7da	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000h7da,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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