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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Tumbes in Peru

Posted by admin on February 14, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location -3.2033S, -80.6773WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was reported 47 kilometers (29 miles) from Tumbes in Peru on Thursday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -80.6773° West, -3.2033° South, depth 10 km. Event id: us2000jhy7. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000jhy7. The temblor was picked up at 08:42:46 / 8:42 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 14/02/19 / 2019-02-14 13:42:46 / February 14, 2019 @ 1:42 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pasaje, Papayal, Santa Rosa (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Machala (c. 198 100 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Tumbes (c. 109 200 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Pasaje (c. 44 900 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Santa Rosa (c. 41 800 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Huaquillas (c. 39 800 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Playas (c. 30 600 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Zarumilla (c. 16 900 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Ecuador (c. 14 791 000 pop), Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop).

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 eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 47 km NNW of Tumbes, Peru. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -80.6773° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -3.2033° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 47km NNW of Tumbes, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-02-14 13:42:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-14 15:33:22 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 340 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 4.078 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 94 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 us2000jhy7 Id of event.
Event Code 2000jhy7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000jhy7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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