Moderate earthquake, 5.7 mag has occurred near Atiquipa in Peru

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 26 km S of Atiquipa, Peru (16 miles). Exact location of event, depth 33.97 km, -74.3425° West, -16.0338° South. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 33.97 km (21 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 27/12/20 / 2020-12-27 07:11:10 / December 27, 2020 @ 7:11 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000d3dr. Unique identifier: us6000d3dr. The temblor was reported at 07:11:10 / 7:11 am (local time epicenter).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. 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 two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 26 km S of Atiquipa, Peru. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-74.3425° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-16.0338° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	33.97 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	26 km S of Atiquipa, Peru	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-12-27 07:11:10	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-12-27 07:28:21	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	4.95	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	500	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	4.474	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.95 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	96	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	us6000d3dr	Id of event.
Event Code	6000d3dr	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000d3dr,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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