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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Pisco in Peru

Posted by admin on July 8, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location -13.6502S, -76.503WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was reported 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Pisco in Peru on Tuesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 46.673 km (29 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -76.503 West, latitude -13.6502 South, depth = 46.673 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/07/25 / 2025-07-08 11:40:06 / July 8, 2025 @ 11:40 am. The temblor was reported at 11:40:06 / 11:40 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000qbba. Id of event: us7000qbba.

Earthquake epicenter was 96 km (59 miles) from Ica (c. 246 800 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Chincha Alta (c. 153 100 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Pisco (c. 61 900 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Imperial (c. 32 300 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Nuevo Imperial (c. 32 300 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from San Vicente de Cañete (c. 25 500 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from San Clemente (c. 15 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Santiago, Los Aquijes, Ica (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 32 km WNW of Pisco, Peru. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -76.503° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -13.6502° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 46.673 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 32 km WNW of Pisco, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-07-08 11:40:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-07-08 12:00:26 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 385 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 61 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.685 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 138 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 us7000qbba Id of event.
Event Code 7000qbba An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000qbba, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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