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Moderate earthquake: M5.5 quake has struck near San Juan in Peru

Posted by admin on September 23, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location -15.7448S, -75.2904WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) strikes 44 kilometers (27 miles) from San Juan in Peru on Tuesday. The temblor was detected at 17:39:19 / 5:39 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 23/09/25 / 2025-09-23 17:39:19 / September 23, 2025 @ 5:39 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 8.981 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -75.2904° West, -15.7448° South, depth 8.981 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rcdc. Id of event: us6000rcdc.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop). Event epicenter was 108 km (67 miles) from Nazca (c. 23 600 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Minas de Marcona (c. 15 500 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Nazca, Minas de Marcona.

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 two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twenty-one 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 44 km SSW of San Juan, Peru.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -75.2904° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -15.7448° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.981 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 44 km SSW of San Juan, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-09-23 17:39:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-09-23 17:56:59 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 465 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 107 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 4.027 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 130 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 us6000rcdc Id of event.
Event Code 6000rcdc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rcdc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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