Strong earthquake: M6 quake has struck near Iquitos in Peru

A earthquake magnitude 6 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 255 km WNW of Iquitos, Peru (158 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 18/04/17 / 2017-04-18 17:49:55 / April 18, 2017 @ 5:49 pm. The temblor was picked up at 12:49:55 / 12:49 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -75.305 West, latitude -2.727 South, depth = 10.74 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10008iq5. Id of event: us10008iq5. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10.74 km (7 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 255 km WNW of Iquitos, Peru.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-75.305° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-2.727° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10.74 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	255km WNW of Iquitos, Peru	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-04-18 17:49:55	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-04-18 18:12:50	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	6	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.1	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	7.88	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	556	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	3.686	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.46 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	39	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	us10008iq5	Id of event.
Event Code	10008iq5	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10008iq5,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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