Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag was detected near Palca in Peru

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 68 kilometers (42 miles) from Palca in Peru. The temblor was reported at 16:19:04 / 4:19 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -69.411 West, latitude -18.1024 South, depth = 126.858 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 24/01/25 / 2025-01-24 16:19:04 / January 24, 2025 @ 4:19 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us6000pm4b. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000pm4b. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 126.858 km (79 miles).

Earthquake epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Tacna (c. 280 100 pop), 102 km (64 miles) from Arica (c. 186 000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop), Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arica, Tacna (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. 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 thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 68 km ESE of Palca, Peru. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-69.411° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-18.1024° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	126.858 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	68 km ESE of Palca, Peru	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-01-24 16:19:04	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-01-24 16:39:39	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	432	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	62	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.924	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.9 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	56	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	us6000pm4b	Id of event.
Event Code	6000pm4b	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000pm4b,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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