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Strong earthquake: M6.2 quake has struck near Puerto Santa in Peru

Posted by admin on December 28, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location -8.9602S, -78.9738WA earthquake magnitude 6.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Puerto Santa in Peru. Exact location of earthquake, -78.9738° West, -8.9602° South, depth 66.413 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 66.413 km (41 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 02:51:50 / 2:51 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us7000rl57. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000rl57. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/12/25 / 2025-12-28 02:51:50 / December 28, 2025 @ 2:51 am.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Chicama, Otuzco, Santiago de Cao. Event epicenter was 94 km (58 miles) from Trujillo (c. 747 500 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Chimbote (c. 317 000 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Laredo (c. 24 700 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Moche (c. 22 600 pop), 115 km (72 miles) from Santiago de Cao (c. 22 000 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Virú (c. 20 800 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Coishco (c. 15 100 pop), 125 km (78 miles) from Chicama (c. 14 900 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 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 have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 36 km W of Puerto Santa, Peru.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -78.9738° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.9602° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 66.413 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 36 km W 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 2025-12-28 02:51:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-12-28 03:10:39 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.3 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 592 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 94 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.667 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.93 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 35 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 us7000rl57 Id of event.
Event Code 7000rl57 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000rl57, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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