Quakedle
Puzzle #16 was 10 km WSW of Atiquipa, Peru.
Quakedle is an educational game. Event details and tsunami indicators must not be used for emergency decisions; follow official local authorities and current USGS notices.
USGS — Tectonic Plates of the Earth
How it scored
- Magnitude
- M7.2 — major class
- Magnitude type
- mww — W-phase moment magnitude
- Depth
- 24.0 km — shallow
- Region
- Northern Andes
- Tsunami indicator
- USGS tsunami indicator set
- Felt reports
- 115 DYFI reports
- PAGER alert
- yellow PAGER alert
- Tectonic plates
- Nazca Plate · South American Plate
- Tectonic context
- The Nazca Plate subducts beneath South America, producing earthquakes from the plate interface down into the descending slab.
Also on the record
- USGS reports magnitude M7.2. Which standard descriptive class contains it?
- Major (M7.0–7.9)
- The hypocentral depth is 24.0 km. Which depth band is it in?
- Shallow (less than 70 km)
- USGS locates the event at “10 km WSW of Atiquipa, Peru”. Which broad authored region matches?
- Northern Andes
- What does the USGS tsunami indicator say for this event?
- Yes — the USGS event record has its tsunami indicator set.
- Is this the largest earthquake in the supplied USGS week comparison?
- Yes — it is the largest or tied for largest in the supplied week.