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Moderate earthquake: M5.2 quake has struck near Coracora in Peru


Earthquake location -15.1781S, -73.9056WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Coracora in Peru. Event id: us1000ave0. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000ave0. The epicenter was at a depth of 89.56 km (56 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 22/10/17 / 2017-10-22 01:37:09 / October 22, 2017 @ 1:37 am UTC/GMT. The 5.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:37:09 / 8:37 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -73.9056 West, latitude -15.1781 South, depth = 89.56 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 59 km (36 miles) from Puquio (c. 10 500 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Coracora (c. 7 400 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Tambo (c. 5 000 pop). Close country/countries, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Puquio, Tambo, Coracora.

There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. 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 two and in the last 365 days sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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: 20 km SW of Coracora, 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 -73.9056° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -15.1781° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 89.56 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20km SW of Coracora, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-10-22 01:37:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-22 01:55:57 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 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 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 4.661 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 143 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 us1000ave0 Id of event.
Event Code 1000ave0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000ave0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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