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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near San Ramon in Peru

Posted by admin on February 19, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location -11.0484S, -75.5607WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 24 kilometers (15 miles) from San Ramon in Peru on Tuesday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/02/19 / 2019-02-19 06:11:42 / February 19, 2019 @ 6:11 am. Id of earthquake: us2000jjw0. Event ids that are associated: us2000jjw0. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 115.52 km (72 miles). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:11:42 / 1:11 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -75.5607° West, latitude -11.0484° South, depth = 115.52 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Morococha, Cerro de Pasco, Tinyahuarco. Earthquake epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Cerro de Pasco (c. 78 900 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Tarma (c. 51 400 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from La Oroya (c. 33 300 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Jauja (c. 21 100 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Junín (c. 15 300 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from San Ramón (c. 14 700 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Oxapampa (c. 12 000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. 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: 24 km WNW of San Ramon, Peru.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -75.5607° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -11.0484° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 115.52 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24km WNW of San Ramon, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-02-19 06:11:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-19 06:54:21 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 312 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 1.564 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 95 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 us2000jjw0 Id of event.
Event Code 2000jjw0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000jjw0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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