Moderate earthquake, 5.7 mag was detected near Acarí in Peru

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Acarí in Peru. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/07/24 / 2024-07-12 09:30:32 / July 12, 2024 @ 9:30 am. Unique identifier: us7000mytc. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000mytc. The epicenter was at a depth of 31.894 km (20 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -74.7689 West, latitude -15.5726 South, depth = 31.894 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:30:32 / 9:30 am (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from Nazca (c. 23 600 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Minas de Marcona (c. 15 500 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Nazca, Minas de Marcona (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 23 km SW of Acarí, Peru.

Acari Minas de Marcona Nazca Peru

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-74.7689° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-15.5726° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	31.894 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	23 km SW of Acarí, Peru	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-07-12 09:30:32	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-07-12 09:53:33	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	5.358	The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level	green	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	133	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	4.093	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.7 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	120	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	us7000mytc	Id of event.
Event Code	7000mytc	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000mytc,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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