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Magnitude 6.1 - AMAZONAS, BRAZIL

2007 July 21 13:27:03 UTC

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Magnitude

6.1

Date-Time

Saturday, July 21, 2007 at 13:27:03 (UTC)
= Coordinated
Universal Time

Saturday, July 21, 2007 at 9:27:03 AM
= local time at
epicenter

Location

7.976°S, 71.130°W

Depth

632.9 km (393.3 miles)

Region

AMAZONAS, BRAZIL

Distances

171 km (106 miles) ESE (102°) from Cruzeiro do Sul, Brazil

377 km (234 miles) E (83°) from Pucallpa, Peru

427 km (265 miles) WNW (301°) from Rio Branco, Brazil

794 km (493 miles) NE (55°) from LIMA, Peru

Location
Uncertainty

horizontal +/- 8.8 km (5.5 miles); depth +/- 11.2 km (7.0 miles)

Parameters

Nst=173, Nph=173, Dmin=974.6 km, Rmss=0.83 sec, Gp=
54°,
M-type=moment magnitude (Mw), Version=7

Source

U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center
World Data Center
for Seismology, Denver

Event
ID

us2007fba1

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