Moderate mag. 5.4 earthquake - Purus, 360 km southeast of Pucallpa, Peru, on Tuesday, 24 November 2015 at 23:27 (GMT)

This quake was likely an aftershock of the 7.6 quake Purus, 426 km southeast of Pucallpa, Peru, 24 November 2015 22:50 GMT, which had occurred 37 minutes earlier.
Moderate mag. 5.4 earthquake - Purus, 360 km southeast of Pucallpa, Peru, on Tuesday, 24 November 2015 at 23:27 (GMT)

Moderate magnitude 5.4 earthquake at 581 km depth

25 Nov 01:58 UTC: Premier à signaler: GFZ après 2 heures et 30 minutes.
Date & time: 24 Nov 2015 23:27:34 UTC
Magnitude: 5.4
Profondeur: 581.0 km
Epicenter latitude / longitude: 10.56°S / 72.13°W (Purus, Région dUcayali, Pérou)
Nearby towns and cities:
120 km NE de San Pedro (pop: 117) --> Voir les séismes à proximité!
264 km NNE de Santa Ana (La Convención, Cusco) (pop: 25,100) --> Voir les séismes à proximité!
330 km N de Cuzco (Cusco) (pop: 312,100) --> Voir les séismes à proximité!
330 km N de Wanchaq (Cusco) (pop: 59,100) --> Voir les séismes à proximité!
330 km N de Santiago (Cusco) (pop: 64,100) --> Voir les séismes à proximité!
357 km SE de San Fernando (pop: 67,800) --> Voir les séismes à proximité!
360 km SE de Pucallpa (pop: 310,800) --> Voir les séismes à proximité!
368 km NE de Ayacucho (pop: 140,000) --> Voir les séismes à proximité!
375 km ENE de Huancayo (Junin) (pop: 376,700) --> Voir les séismes à proximité!
559 km ENE de Lima (pop: 7,737,000) --> Voir les séismes à proximité!
Primary data source: GFZ (German Research Centre for Geosciences)
Estimated released energy: 7.9 x 1012 joules (2.21 gigawatt hours, equivalent to 1898 tons of TNT or 0.1 atomic bombs!) More info
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Data for the same earthquake reported by different agencies

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MagnitudeProfondeurLocationSource
M 5.4581 kmPeru-Brazil Border RegionGFZ
M 5.4581 km CENTRAL PERUEMSC

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Moderate mag. 5.4 earthquake - Purus, 360 km southeast of Pucallpa, Peru, on Tuesday, 24 November 2015 at 23:27 (GMT)
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