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- M6.2 - Earthquake near the coast of northern Peru

 

A magnitude 6.2 earthquake was detected by our Citizen seismic station in Girona, Spain, a 36 km W of Puerto Santa

 

Earthquake near the coast of northern Peru
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Earthquake data:

 

Date and time of origin: 2025-12-28 05:51:51 UTC
Date and time of arrival at the Citizen seismic station: 2025-12-28 06:04:41 UTC
Location where the station is located: Germans Sàbat, Girona, ES (EU)
Time difference from the event to arrival at the station: 12 minutes and 50 seconds
Distance from the epicenter to the station: 10.002,49 Km
Wave speed: 12,99 km/s => 12.990,25 m/s
Wave type (according to speed): SKS
Sensor type: Geophone 4.5Hz - 200 V/m/s
Sampling frequency (sps): 100Hz
Alarms: frequencies activated upon arrival of the wave:
* By order of detection
0.1-1Hz,0.5-1Hz,0.7-2Hz
Place of Origin: 94 km SSE of Trujillo, Peru / pop: 747,000 / local time: 21:51:50.8 2025-12-27 46 km W of Chimbote, Peru / pop: 316,000 / local time: 21:51:50.8 2025
Geodetic coordinates of the epicenter:  📍 -8.9600°N -78.9740°E
Depth (hypocenter): 66.0 km
Magnitude Richter Scale: M6.2
Modified Mercalli Scale Magnitude MMI => DYFI (Did You Feel It):
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URL Official Data USGS:  https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/...
URL Official Data EMSC:  https://www.emsc.eu/Earthquake_information/earthqu...
Unofficial data URL Volcano Discovery:  https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/es/sismos/informe...

 

 

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