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Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag has occurred near Puerto Santa in Peru


Earthquake location -8.9107S, -79.0435WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Puerto Santa in Peru. Exact location of earthquake, -79.0435° West, -8.9107° South, depth 58 km. The temblor was reported at 15:24:08 / 3:24 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us2000j481. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000j481. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/01/19 / 2019-01-15 20:24:08 / January 15, 2019 @ 8:24 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 58 km (36 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Event epicenter was 88 km (55 miles) from Trujillo (c. 747 500 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Chimbote (c. 317 000 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Laredo (c. 24 700 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Moche (c. 22 600 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Virú (c. 20 800 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Coishco (c. 15 100 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Puerto Santa (c. 14 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Laredo, Trujillo, Moche (min 5000 pop).

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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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.

Questions or comments?

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. 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: 44 km WNW of Puerto Santa, Peru.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -79.0435° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.9107° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 58 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 44km WNW of Puerto Santa, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-01-15 20:24:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-15 20:47:19 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 3.746 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 121 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 us2000j481 Id of event.
Event Code 2000j481 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000j481, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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