A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 55 kilometers (34 miles) from Abancay in Peru. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 75.08 km (47 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 02/09/19 / 2019-09-02 16:35:27 / September 2, 2019 @ 4:35 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -72.5966 West, latitude -14.0532 South, depth = 75.08 km. Unique identifier: us70005b70. Ids that are associated to the event: us70005b70. The temblor was picked up at 11:35:27 / 11:35 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 90 km (56 miles) from Cusco (c. 312 100 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Abancay (c. 55 100 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Andahuaylas (c. 17 400 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Urubamba (c. 7 500 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Talavera (c. 7 400 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Anta (c. 5 900 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from San Jerónimo (c. 5 600 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Talavera, Urubamba, Andahuaylas.
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 seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.
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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: 55 km SSE of Abancay, Peru.
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