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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag strikes near Tingo Maria in Peru


Earthquake location -9.4991S, -75.5914WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes 51 kilometers (32 miles) from Tingo Maria in Peru on Monday. The 5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:33:49 / 11:33 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -75.5914° West, latitude -9.4991° South, depth = 114.16 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 15/10/18 / 2018-10-15 16:33:49 / October 15, 2018 @ 4:33 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us1000hcd1. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000hcd1. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 114.16 km (71 miles).

The epicenter was 86 km (53 miles) from Huánuco (c. 148 000 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Tingo María (c. 53 200 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Ambo (c. 6 900 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ambo, Huánuco, Tingo María (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. 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: 51 km ESE of Tingo Maria, Peru.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -75.5914° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -9.4991° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 114.16 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 51km ESE of Tingo Maria, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-10-15 16:33:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-15 16:49:09 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 385 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 2.761 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.3 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 85 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 us1000hcd1 Id of event.
Event Code 1000hcd1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hcd1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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