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Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near Uchiza in Peru


Earthquake location -8.655S, -76.0353WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 51 kilometers (32 miles) from Uchiza in Peru. The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:46:50 / 10:46 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 13/06/24 / 2024-06-13 22:46:50 / June 13, 2024 @ 10:46 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us7000ms9k. Event ids that are associated: us7000ms9k. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -76.0353 West, latitude -8.655 South, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close 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 Tocache, Tingo María, Uchiza. Epicenter of the event was 71 km (44 miles) from Tingo María (c. 53 200 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Tocache (c. 29 000 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Uchiza (c. 17 700 pop).

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 struck near. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 51 km ESE of Uchiza, Peru. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -76.0353° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.655° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 51 km ESE of Uchiza, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-06-13 22:46:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-06-13 23:08:07 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 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 385 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 49 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.405 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.03 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 105 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 us7000ms9k Id of event.
Event Code 7000ms9k An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000ms9k, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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