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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag was detected near Tacna in Peru

Posted by admin on October 18, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -17.8468S, -69.8523WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Tacna in Peru. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 113.24 km (70 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us1000hdya. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000hdya. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/10/18 / 2018-10-18 15:47:52 / October 18, 2018 @ 3:47 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -69.8523 West, latitude -17.8468 South, depth = 113.24 km. The temblor was picked up at 10:47:52 / 10:47 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 46 km (29 miles) from Tacna (c. 280 100 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Arica (c. 186 000 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Ilabaya (c. 9 500 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ilabaya, Arica, Tacna. Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop), Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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: 45 km ENE of Tacna, Peru.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -69.8523° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.8468° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 113.24 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 45km ENE of Tacna, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-10-18 15:47:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-18 16:06:00 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 0.437 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 99 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 us1000hdya Id of event.
Event Code 1000hdya An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hdya, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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