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Moderate earthquake: M5.8 quake has struck near Minas de Marcona in Peru


Earthquake location -15.8336S, -75.1857WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 69 kilometers (43 miles) from Minas de Marcona in Peru. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -75.1857° West, -15.8336° South. Exact time and date of earthquake 08/05/19 / 2019-05-08 13:47:18 / May 8, 2019 @ 1:47 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was reported at 08:47:18 / 8:47 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us70003ib5. Unique identifier: us70003ib5.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 115 km (71 miles) from Nazca (c. 23 600 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Minas de Marcona (c. 15 500 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Nazca, Minas de Marcona. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 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 two and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 69 km S of Minas de Marcona, Peru.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -75.1857° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -15.8336° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 69km S of Minas de Marcona, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-05-08 13:47:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-08 14:06:45 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 4.233 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 518 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 4.147 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.84 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 131 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 us70003ib5 Id of event.
Event Code 70003ib5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003ib5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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