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Moderate earthquake, 5.6 mag was detected near Rio Grande in Peru

Posted by admin on January 25, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location -14.5252S, -75.3858WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.6 (ml/mb) strikes 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Rio Grande in Peru on Thursday. Unique identifier: us2000j8n4. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000j8n4. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/01/19 / 2019-01-25 04:45:21 / January 25, 2019 @ 4:45 am. The temblor was detected at 23:45:21 / 11:45 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -75.3858° West, latitude -14.5252° South, depth = 57.48 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 57.48 km (36 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Minas de Marcona, Subtanjalla, San Juan Bautista (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop). The epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from Ica (c. 246 800 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Nazca (c. 23 600 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Minas de Marcona (c. 15 500 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Santiago (c. 10 400 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Subtanjalla (c. 9 100 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Los Aquijes (c. 7 800 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from San Juan Bautista (c. 6 900 pop), 22 km (13 miles) from Palpa (c. 5 900 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each 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 two and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 19 km W of Rio Grande, Peru. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -75.3858° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -14.5252° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 57.48 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19km W of Rio Grande, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-01-25 04:45:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-25 05:10:24 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 8 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.09 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 485 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 2.893 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 78 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 us2000j8n4 Id of event.
Event Code 2000j8n4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000j8n4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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