Pucallpa Peru earthquake today 5.5 - 37 km N of Pucallpa, Peru 2022-12-22 13:13:55

 5.5 - 37 km N of Pucallpa, Peru

2022-12-22 13:13:55 (UTC)8.042°S 74.503°W157.0 km profundity

Authoritative Area

ISO

PER

Locale

Ucayali

Country

Peru

Close by Spots

Pucallpa, Ucayali, Peru

37.9 km (23.6 mi) SPopulation: 310750

San Fernando, Ucayali, Peru

39.8 km (24.8 mi) SPopulation: 67844

Contamana, Loreto, Peru

97.1 km (60.4 mi) NWPopulation: 13885

Cruzeiro do Sul, Section of land, Brazil

206.5 km (128.3 mi) ENEPopulation: 79819

Tingo María, Huanuco, Peru

215.5 km (133.9 mi) SWPopulation: 53177

Distance and heading from focal point to local place.

2 Tectonic Synopsis

Seismotectonics of South America (Nazca Plate Locale)

The South American bend reaches out more than 7,000 km, from the Chilean edge triple intersection seaward of southern Chile to its convergence with the Panama crack zone, seaward of the southern shoreline of Panama in Focal America. It denotes the plate limit between the subducting Nazca plate and the South America plate, where the maritime hull and lithosphere of the Nazca plate start their drop into the mantle underneath South America. The union related with this subduction cycle is answerable for the inspire of the Andes Mountains, and for the dynamic volcanic chain present along quite a bit of this distortion front. Comparative with a proper South America plate, the Nazca plate moves somewhat north of eastwards at a rate differing from roughly 80 mm/yr in the south to roughly 65 mm/yr in the north. Albeit the pace of subduction shifts little along the whole bend, there are complicated changes in the geologic cycles along the subduction zone that decisively impact volcanic action, crustal misshapening, tremor age and event up and down the western edge of South America.

The vast majority of the enormous seismic tremors in South America are obliged to shallow profundities of 0 to 70 km coming about because of both crustal and interplate twisting. Crustal seismic tremors result from disfigurement and mountain working in the abrogating South America plate and create quakes as profound as roughly 50 km. Interplate quakes happen because of slip along the plunging connection point between the Nazca and the South American plates. Interplate quakes in this locale are successive and frequently huge, and happen between the profundities of roughly 10 and 60 km. Beginning around 1900, various extent 8 or bigger quakes have happened on this subduction zone interface that were trailed by annihilating waves, including the 1960 M9.5 tremor in southern Chile, the biggest instrumentally kept quake on the planet. Other prominent shallow wave creating quakes incorporate the 1906 M8.5 seismic tremor close to Esmeraldas, Ecuador, the 1922 M8.5 seismic tremor close to Coquimbo, Chile, the 2001 M8.4 Arequipa, Peru quake, the 2007 M8.0 tremor close to Pisco, Peru, and the 2010 M8.8 Maule, Chile tremor found only more than the 1960 occasion.

Enormous middle of the road profundity seismic tremors (those happening between profundities of roughly 70 and 300 km) are somewhat restricted in size and spatial degree in South America, and happen inside the Nazca plate because of inner misshapening inside the subducting plate. These quakes by and large bunch underneath northern Chile and southwestern Bolivia, and less significantly underneath northern Peru and southern Ecuador, with profundities somewhere in the range of 110 and 130 km. The vast majority of these quakes happen contiguous the twist in the shoreline among Peru and Chile. The latest enormous moderate profundity quake in this locale was the 2005 M7.8 Tarapaca, Chile tremor.

Quakes can likewise be produced to profundities more prominent than 600 km because of proceeded with inward twisting of the subducting Nazca plate. Profound center quakes in South America are not seen from a profundity scope of roughly 300 to 500 km. All things being equal, profound tremors in this district happen at profundities of 500 to 650 km and are packed into two zones: one that runs underneath the Peru-Brazil line and another that reaches out from focal Bolivia to focal Argentina. These seismic tremors for the most part don't display enormous sizes. An exemption for this was the 1994 Bolivian quake in northwestern Bolivia. This M8.2 quake happened at a profundity of 631 km, which was as of not long ago the biggest profound center tremor instrumentally recorded (supplanted in May 2013 by a M8.3 quake 610 km underneath the Ocean of Okhotsk, Russia), and was felt generally all through South and North America.Subduction of the Nazca plate is mathematically complicated and influences the geography and seismicity of the western edge of South America. The middle of the road profundity locales of the subducting Nazca plate can be portioned into five areas in light of their point of subduction underneath the South America plate. Three portions are portrayed by steeply plunging subduction; the other two by close even subduction. The Nazca plate underneath northern Ecuador, southern Peru to northern Chile, and southern Chile plunge into the mantle at points of 25° to 30°. Interestingly, the chunk underneath southern Ecuador to focal Peru, and under focal Chile, is subducting at a shallow point of roughly 10° or less. In these areas of "level chunk" subduction, the Nazca plate moves evenly for a few hundred kilometers prior to proceeding with its plunge into the mantle, and is shadowed by a lengthy zone of crustal seismicity in the overlying South America plate. Albeit the South America plate shows a chain of dynamic volcanism coming about because of the subduction and fractional liquefying of the Nazca maritime lithosphere along the majority of the curve, these districts of derived shallow subduction relate with a shortfall of volcanic action.