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Moderate earthquake: M5.2 quake has struck near Pisco in Peru

Posted by admin on October 13, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -13.7547S, -76.3449WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Pisco in Peru. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 40.85 km (25 miles). Exact location, longitude -76.3449° West, latitude -13.7547° South, depth = 40.85 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/10/18 / 2018-10-13 00:13:23 / October 13, 2018 @ 12:13 am. Unique identifier: us1000hbfe. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000hbfe. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:13:23 / 7:13 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 75 km (47 miles) from Ica (c. 246 800 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Chincha Alta (c. 153 100 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Pisco (c. 61 900 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Imperial (c. 32 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Nuevo Imperial (c. 32 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from San Vicente de Cañete (c. 25 500 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from San Clemente (c. 15 800 pop). Nearby country/countries, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Quilmaná, Santiago, Los Aquijes.

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 six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes 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. 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: 15 km WSW of Pisco, Peru.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -76.3449° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -13.7547° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 40.85 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km WSW of Pisco, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-10-13 00:13:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-13 00:41:18 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 4 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 417 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 1.822 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.16 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 90 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 us1000hbfe Id of event.
Event Code 1000hbfe An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hbfe, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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