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Moderate earthquake: M5.2 quake has struck near Santiago de Cao in Peru

Posted by admin on February 25, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location -8.0653S, -79.9568WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 79 kilometers (49 miles) from Santiago de Cao in Peru. Exact location, longitude -79.9568° West, latitude -8.0653° South, depth = 31.93 km. Global time and date of event 25/02/20 / 2020-02-25 04:15:02 / February 25, 2020 @ 4:15 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us70007w9l. Event ids that are associated: us70007w9l. The temblor was picked up at 23:15:02 / 11:15 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 31.93 km (20 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquake epicenter was 102 km (63 miles) from Trujillo (c. 747 500 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Chocope (c. 32 400 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Pacasmayo (c. 29 200 pop), 105 km (65 miles) from Guadalupe (c. 25 400 pop), 105 km (65 miles) from Moche (c. 22 600 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Santiago de Cao (c. 22 000 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Paiján (c. 21 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Moche, Guadalupe, Trujillo (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. 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 have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. 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: 79 km W of Santiago de Cao, Peru.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -79.9568° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.0653° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 31.93 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 79km W of Santiago de Cao, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-02-25 04:15:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-25 04:28:43 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.1 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 417 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 4.959 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.09 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 151 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 us70007w9l Id of event.
Event Code 70007w9l An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70007w9l, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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