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Moderate earthquake 5.2 mag, 13 km WNW of Campoverde, Peru


Earthquake location -8.4499S, -74.9269WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Campoverde in Peru. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 132.38 km (82 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us20005ygb. Unique identifier: us20005ygb. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -74.9269 West, latitude -8.4499 South, depth = 132.38 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/05/16 / 2016-05-27 10:00:49 / May 27, 2016 @ 10:00 am. The temblor was detected at 05:00:49 / 5:00 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 42 km (26 miles) from Pucallpa (c. 310 800 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Campoverde (c. 8 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pucallpa, Campoverde (min 5000 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 one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 13 km WNW of Campoverde, Peru. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -74.9269° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.4499° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 132.38 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km WNW of Campoverde, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-05-27 10:00:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-27 10:27:08 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 416 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.313 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.84 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 61 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 us20005ygb Id of event.
Event Code 20005ygb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005ygb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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