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Light earthquake: M4.7 quake has struck near Moche in Peru


Earthquake location -8.4644S, -79.4854WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes 61 kilometers (38 miles) from Moche in Peru on Saturday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/05/19 / 2019-05-25 12:56:28 / May 25, 2019 @ 12:56 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 57.41 km (36 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -79.4854 West, latitude -8.4644 South, depth = 57.41 km. Id of earthquake: us60003s39. Event ids that are associated: us60003s39. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:56:28 / 7:56 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ascope, Paiján, Virú (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 63 km (39 miles) from Trujillo (c. 747 500 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Chocope (c. 32 400 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Laredo (c. 24 700 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Moche (c. 22 600 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Santiago de Cao (c. 22 000 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Paiján (c. 21 100 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Virú (c. 20 800 pop). Close country/countries, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 61 km WSW of Moche, Peru.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -79.4854° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.4644° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 57.41 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 61km WSW of Moche, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-05-25 12:56:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-25 13:16:38 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 340 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 4.361 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 169 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 us60003s39 Id of event.
Event Code 60003s39 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60003s39, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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