Moderate earthquake: M5.7 quake has struck near Paracas in Peru

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.7 (ml/mb) strikes 67 kilometers (42 miles) from Paracas in Peru on Wednesday. Exact location, longitude -76.3145° West, latitude -14.4747° South, depth = 10 km. Global time and date of event 29/11/17 / 2017-11-29 06:29:05 / November 29, 2017 @ 6:29 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:29:05 / 1:29 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us2000bvsl. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000bvsl.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Clemente, Villa Tupac Amaru, Pisco (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 78 km (48 miles) from Ica (c. 246 800 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Pisco (c. 61 900 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from San Clemente (c. 15 800 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Villa Tupac Amaru (c. 11 200 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Santiago (c. 10 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Subtanjalla (c. 9 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Los Aquijes (c. 7 800 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from San Juan Bautista (c. 6 900 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 67 km S of Paracas, Peru. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-76.3145° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-14.4747° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	67km S of Paracas, Peru	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-11-29 06:29:05	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-11-29 06:47:44	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	4.15	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	500	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	2.525	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.42 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	128	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	us2000bvsl	Id of event.
Event Code	2000bvsl	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000bvsl,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

5.7 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

-76.3145° West

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

-14.4747° South

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

10 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

67km S of Paracas, Peru

Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.

Time

2017-11-29 06:29:05

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2017-11-29 06:47:44

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

4.15

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

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

500

A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.

Network

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

2.525

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

1.42 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

128

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

us2000bvsl

Id of event.

Event Code

2000bvsl

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us2000bvsl,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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