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Moderate earthquake 5.3 mag, 88 km WSW of Santiago de Cao, Peru


Earthquake location -8.3276S, -79.9551WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 88 kilometers (55 miles) from Santiago de Cao in Peru. Global time and date of event 20/07/20 / 2020-07-20 01:50:12 / July 20, 2020 @ 1:50 am UTC/GMT. The 5.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:50:12 / 1:50 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 39.52 km (25 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000aref. Unique identifier: us7000aref. Exact location of event, longitude -79.9551 West, latitude -8.3276 South, depth = 39.52 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Salaverry, Moche, Trujillo. The epicenter was 104 km (65 miles) from Trujillo (c. 747 500 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Chocope (c. 32 400 pop), 106 km (66 miles) from Moche (c. 22 600 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Santiago de Cao (c. 22 000 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Paiján (c. 21 100 pop), 104 km (65 miles) from Chicama (c. 14 900 pop), 108 km (67 miles) from Salaverry (c. 10 100 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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: 88 km WSW of Santiago de Cao, Peru.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -79.9551° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.3276° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 39.52 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 88 km WSW of Santiago de Cao, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-07-20 01:50:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-20 02:07:19 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 432 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 4.755 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 134 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 us7000aref Id of event.
Event Code 7000aref An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000aref, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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