© USGS
Sunday, March 27, 2011 at 13:26:36 UTC
Sunday, March 27, 2011 at 08:26:36 AM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location:
8.680°S, 74.599°W
Depth:
125.6 km (78.0 miles)
Region:
CENTRAL PERU
Distances:
41 km (25 miles) SSW of Pucallpa, Peru
218 km (135 miles) NE of Huanuco, Peru
255 km (158 miles) WSW of Cruzeiro do Sul, Acre, Brazil
456 km (283 miles) NE of LIMA, Peru
Location Uncertainty:
horizontal +/- 5.4 km (3.4 miles); depth +/- 7.1 km (4.4 miles)
Parameters:
NST=132, Nph=132, Dmin=440.7 km, Rmss=0.63 sec, Gp= 65°, M-type=body wave magnitude (Mb), Version=8
Source:
USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Event ID:
usc0002cjy
I'm mystified by the choice in posting these "earthquake" reports. This one and the person undetectable "2.6" in Alaska a couple of days ago.
I think the person approving these SOTT.net articles has never.ever been in a real earthquake.
Here in central Chile, even before the megaquake, 4.8ish temblors (not "earthquakes" or "terremotos" which is reserved for the really strong shakes) occur quite regularly if not every month. In fact, there was a 5.4 at 2 am this morning that lifted my sleep from unconscious to semi-conscious-get-ready-to-wake-and-move awareness.
Other observations:
Not all temblors here show up on the USGS feed. I've felt temblors as high as 5.6+ that just never appeared on the USGS feed. The University of Chile has their own seismo system on the web for those interested.
Watching the USGS feed for about for about two years now, I've noticed a pattern of temblors in the Caribe region (Virgin Islands-Puerto Rico-Dominican Republic) and the Peru-Chile-Argentina border region. I think there is credence to the theory of a connection as the two plates touch at the Central America isthmus.