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Magnitude 6.0 - NORTHERN PERU

2007 July 12 05:23:49 UTC

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Magnitude

6.0

Date-Time

Thursday, July 12, 2007 at 05:23:49 (UTC)
= Coordinated
Universal Time

Thursday, July 12, 2007 at 12:23:49 AM
= local time at
epicenter Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones

Location

7.929°S, 74.359°W

Depth

152.9 km (95.0 miles) set by location program

Region

NORTHERN PERU

Distances

55 km (35 miles) NNE of
Pucallpa, Peru
195 km (120 miles) W of Cruzeiro do Sul, Acre,
Brazil
295 km (185 miles) NE of Huanuco, Peru
545 km (340
miles) NNE of LIMA, Peru

Location
Uncertainty

horizontal +/- 5.8 km (3.6 miles); depth fixed by location
program

Parameters

Nst=209, Nph=209, Dmin=524.4 km, Rmss=0.87 sec, Gp=
40°,
M-type=moment magnitude (Mw), Version=6

Source

USGS NEIC
(WDCS-D)

Event
ID

us2007esag

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