Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Vilcanchos in Peru

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was reported 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Vilcanchos in Peru on Monday. Exact location, longitude -74.7966° West, latitude -13.7217° South, depth = 94.514 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 15/09/25 / 2025-09-15 01:52:44 / September 15, 2025 @ 1:52 am. Id of earthquake: us7000qw8g. Event ids that are associated: us7000qw8g. The temblor was picked up at 01:52:44 / 1:52 am (local time epicenter). 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 94.514 km (59 miles).

Nearby country/countries, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Palpa, Ayacucho (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 88 km (55 miles) from Ayacucho (c. 140 000 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Palpa (c. 5 900 pop).

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 six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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: 31 km WSW of Vilcanchos, Peru.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-74.7966° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-13.7217° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	94.514 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	31 km WSW of Vilcanchos, Peru	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-09-15 01:52:44	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-09-15 02:06:34	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	65	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.636	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.02 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	mb	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us7000qw8g	Id of event.
Event Code	7000qw8g	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000qw8g,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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