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Moderate earthquake 5.2 mag, 51 km WSW of Santiago, Peru

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A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 51 kilometers (32 miles) from Santiago in Peru. Exact time and date of earthquake 16/05/24 / 2024-05-16 05:13:54 / May 16, 2024 @ 5:13 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 05:13:54 / 5:13 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 35 km, -76.1516° West, -14.3528° South. Id of earthquake: us6000mywl. Event ids that are associated: us6000mywl. The epicenter was at a depth of 35 km (22 miles).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 56 km (35 miles) from Ica (c. 246 800 pop), 105 km (65 miles) from Chincha Alta (c. 153 100 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Pisco (c. 61 900 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from San Clemente (c. 15 800 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Villa Tupac Amaru (c. 11 200 pop), 51 km (31 miles) from Santiago (c. 10 400 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Subtanjalla (c. 9 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Palpa, Chincha Alta, San Clemente. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. 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 one 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 51 km WSW of Santiago, Peru.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-76.1516° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-14.3528° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	35 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	51 km WSW of Santiago, Peru	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-05-16 05:13:54	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-05-16 05:37:58	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.1	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	416	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	71	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.445	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.81 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	137	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	us6000mywl	Id of event.
Event Code	6000mywl	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000mywl,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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