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Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag was detected near Callao in Peru

Posted by admin on March 17, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location -12.1478S, -77.4182WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Callao in Peru. Exact location of event, depth 59.83 km, -77.4182° West, -12.1478° South. The epicenter was at a depth of 59.83 km (37 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000jhb1. Id of event: us1000jhb1. The 3.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:43:18 / 8:43 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/03/19 / 2019-03-16 13:43:18 / March 16, 2019 @ 1:43 pm.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Santa Eulalia, Chilca, Asentamiento Humano Nicolas de Pierola (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 44 km (27 miles) from Lima (c. 7 737 000 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Callao (c. 813 300 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Surco (c. 251 600 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Chosica (c. 88 600 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from San Isidro (c. 68 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Huaral (c. 62 200 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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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. 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: 30 km WSW of Callao, Peru.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -77.4182° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -12.1478° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 59.83 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 30km WSW of Callao, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-03-16 13:43:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-17 05:22:51 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 222 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 0.585 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 271 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000jhb1 Id of event.
Event Code 1000jhb1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000jhb1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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