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Moderate earthquake 5.5 mag, near the coast of northern Peru

Posted by admin on November 20, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -9.8322S, -78.5297WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) strikes near the coast of northern Peru kilometers (0 miles) from northern Peru on Tuesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/11/18 / 2018-11-20 06:38:07 / November 20, 2018 @ 6:38 am. Id of earthquake: us1000hub0. Event ids that are associated: us1000hub0. Exact location of event, depth 55.95 km, -78.5297° West, -9.8322° South. The 5.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:38:07 / 6:38 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 55.95 km (35 miles).

Event epicenter was 83 km (52 miles) from Chimbote (c. 317 000 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Huarmey (c. 16 200 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Coishco (c. 15 100 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Puerto Santa (c. 14 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Puerto Santa, Coishco, Chimbote. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: near the coast of northern Peru.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -78.5297° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -9.8322° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 55.95 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place near the coast of northern Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-11-20 06:38:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-20 07:00:48 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.3 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.01 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 467 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 2.708 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.36 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 147 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 us1000hub0 Id of event.
Event Code 1000hub0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hub0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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