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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Sechura in Peru

Posted by admin on October 2, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location -5.5128S, -80.8755WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Sechura in Peru. Exact location of event, depth 35 km, -80.8755° West, -5.5128° South. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 02/10/19 / 2019-10-02 21:43:00 / October 2, 2019 @ 9:43 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70005q1k. Id of event: us70005q1k. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 16:43:00 / 4:43 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby country/countries, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Chulucanas, Tambo Grande, Querecotillo. Epicenter of the earthquake was 44 km (28 miles) from Piura (c. 325 500 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Sullana (c. 160 800 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Chulucanas (c. 68 800 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Catacaos (c. 57 300 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Paita (c. 56 200 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from La Unión (c. 34 800 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Tambo Grande (c. 30 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 7 km NW of Sechura, Peru. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -80.8755° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.5128° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km NW of Sechura, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-10-02 21:43:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-02 22:07:37 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 312 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 3.43 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 148 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 us70005q1k Id of event.
Event Code 70005q1k An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005q1k, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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