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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag strikes near La Peca in Peru

Posted by admin on April 17, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location -5.1202S, -78.0238WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 70 kilometers (43 miles) from La Peca in Peru. The temblor was detected at 10:01:01 / 10:01 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 62.05 km, -78.0238° West, -5.1202° South. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us700037tm. Id of event: us700037tm. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/04/19 / 2019-04-17 15:01:01 / April 17, 2019 @ 3:01 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 62.05 km (39 miles).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bellavista, Bagua Grande, Cajaruro. Nearby country/countries, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 71 km (44 miles) from La Peca (c. 27 000 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Bagua Grande (c. 20 400 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Cajaruro (c. 7 300 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Bellavista (c. 6 300 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year.

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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: 70 km NE of La Peca, Peru. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -78.0238° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.1202° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 62.05 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 70km NE of La Peca, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-04-17 15:01:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-17 15:19:09 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 385 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 2.909 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.02 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 116 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us700037tm Id of event.
Event Code 700037tm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700037tm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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