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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag was detected near Oxapampa in Peru

Posted by admin on March 5, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location -9.8302S, -75.4449WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) strikes 82 kilometers (51 miles) from Oxapampa in Peru on Tuesday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/03/19 / 2019-03-05 22:53:25 / March 5, 2019 @ 10:53 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -75.4449 West, latitude -9.8302 South, depth = 10 km. The temblor was detected at 17:53:25 / 5:53 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us1000jb1e. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000jb1e.

Earthquake epicenter was 88 km (55 miles) from Huánuco (c. 148 000 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Tingo María (c. 53 200 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Oxapampa (c. 12 000 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Ambo (c. 6 900 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ambo, Huánuco, Tingo María (min 5000 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 82 km N of Oxapampa, Peru. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -75.4449° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -9.8302° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 82km N of Oxapampa, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-03-05 22:53:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-05 23:10:08 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 354 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 2.545 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.03 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 113 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 us1000jb1e Id of event.
Event Code 1000jb1e An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000jb1e, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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