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Moderate earthquake 5 mag, 17 km NNW of Locumba, Peru


Earthquake location -17.4608S, -70.808WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Locumba in Peru. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/10/24 / 2024-10-24 19:23:14 / October 24, 2024 @ 7:23 pm. The temblor was picked up at 19:23:14 / 7:23 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 116.55 km (72 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 116.55 km, -70.808° West, -17.4608° South. Event id: us7000nmzd. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000nmzd.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tacna, Ilo, Pacocha (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from Tacna (c. 280 100 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Moquegua (c. 54 500 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Ilo (c. 53 500 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Ilabaya (c. 9 500 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Pacocha (c. 7 600 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Torata (c. 7 100 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 17 km NNW of Locumba, Peru. This information 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 -70.808° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.4608° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 116.55 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17 km NNW of Locumba, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-10-24 19:23:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-10-24 19:40:13 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 44 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.008 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.47 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 71 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 us7000nmzd Id of event.
Event Code 7000nmzd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nmzd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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