A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Puerto Santa in Peru on Wednesday. Global time and date of event 13/08/25 / 2025-08-13 00:54:34 / August 13, 2025 @ 12:54 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us6000r08a. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000r08a. Exact location of event, depth 68.824 km, -78.9031° West, -8.8746° South. 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 68.824 km (43 miles). The 5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:54:34 / 12:54 am (local time epicenter).
Earthquake epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from Trujillo (c. 747 500 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Chimbote (c. 317 000 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from Laredo (c. 24 700 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Moche (c. 22 600 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Virú (c. 20 800 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Coishco (c. 15 100 pop), 31 km (19 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).
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 two and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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