Strong earthquake, 6 mag was detected near San Pedro in Peru

A earthquake magnitude 6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from San Pedro in Peru. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 92.076 km, -74.1584° West, -14.7708° South. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 92.076 km (57 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 10:22:13 / 10:22 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/05/25 / 2025-05-17 10:22:13 / May 17, 2025 @ 10:22 am. Event id: us7000pztw. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000pztw.

The epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from Nazca (c. 23 600 pop), 113 km (70 miles) from Minas de Marcona (c. 15 500 pop), 8 km (5 miles) from Puquio (c. 10 500 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Coracora (c. 7 400 pop), 114 km (71 miles) from Palpa (c. 5 900 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Tambo (c. 5 000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Palpa, Minas de Marcona, Nazca (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. Each year there are an estimated 135 quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 6 km W of San Pedro, Peru.

Coracora Minas de Marcona Nazca Palpa Peru Puquio San Pedro Tambo

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-74.1584° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-14.7708° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	92.076 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6 km W of San Pedro, Peru	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-05-17 10:22:13	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-05-17 10:43:14	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.7	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	554	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	68	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	3.804	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	66	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	us7000pztw	Id of event.
Event Code	7000pztw	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000pztw,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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