Strong earthquake: M6 quake has struck near Atiquipa in Peru

A earthquake with magnitude 6 (ml/mb) was reported 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Atiquipa in Peru on Sunday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -74.5392 West, latitude -15.9192 South, depth = 19.917 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/06/24 / 2024-06-16 14:47:31 / June 16, 2024 @ 2:47 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 19.917 km (12 miles). The 6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:47:31 / 2:47 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us7000mstj. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000mstj.

Country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 100 km (62 miles) from Minas de Marcona (c. 15 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Minas de Marcona (min 5000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes 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 has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas.

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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. 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: 23 km SW of Atiquipa, Peru.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-74.5392° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-15.9192° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	19.917 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	23 km SW 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	2024-06-16 14:47:31	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-06-16 15:04:33	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	554	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	74	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	4.502	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.11 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	68	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	us7000mstj	Id of event.
Event Code	7000mstj	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000mstj,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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