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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Pisco in Peru

Posted by admin on March 4, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location -13.5377S, -76.5554WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Pisco in Peru. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000jaaz. Unique identifier: us1000jaaz. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 38.92 km (24 miles). The temblor was detected at 06:03:02 / 6:03 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/03/19 / 2019-03-04 11:03:02 / March 4, 2019 @ 11:03 am. Exact location of event, longitude -76.5554 West, latitude -13.5377 South, depth = 38.92 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Quilmaná, Imperial, Nuevo Imperial. Event epicenter was 48 km (30 miles) from Chincha Alta (c. 153 100 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Pisco (c. 61 900 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Imperial (c. 32 300 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Nuevo Imperial (c. 32 300 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from San Vicente de Cañete (c. 25 500 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from San Clemente (c. 15 800 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Villa Tupac Amaru (c. 11 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, 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 six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. 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: 40 km WNW of Pisco, Peru.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -76.5554° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -13.5377° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 38.92 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 40km WNW of Pisco, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-03-04 11:03:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-04 11:25:42 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 1.566 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.49 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 146 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 us1000jaaz Id of event.
Event Code 1000jaaz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000jaaz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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