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Moderate earthquake 5 mag, 30 km WNW of Puerto Santa, Peru


Earthquake location -8.8746S, -78.9031WA 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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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: 30 km WNW of Puerto Santa, Peru. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -78.9031° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.8746° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 68.824 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 30 km WNW of Puerto Santa, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-08-13 00:54:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-13 01:12:30 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 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 45 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.698 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 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 mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000r08a Id of event.
Event Code 6000r08a An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000r08a, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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