Minor earthquake: M3.9 quake strikes near Nicolas de Pierola in Peru

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (mg/mb) was reported Friday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Nicolas de Pierola in Peru. The temblor was reported at 23:43:03 / 11:43 pm (local time epicenter) at a depth of 29.31 km (18 miles). Global time of event 28/02/15 / 2015-02-28 04:43:03 / February 28, 2015 @ 4:43 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude -76.5579 West, latitude -12.0556 South, depth 29.31 km, unique identifier, usc000ttzb.

Close countries, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop). The epicenter was 51 km (32 miles) from Lima (c. 7 737 000 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Callao (c. 813 300 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Surco (c. 251 600 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Chosica (c. 88 600 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from San Isidro (c. 68 300 pop). Nearest city, towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Morococha, Mala, Callao.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-76.5579° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-12.0556° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	29.31 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	19km SE of Nicolas de Pierola, Peru	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-02-28 04:43:03	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-02-28 12:07:53	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	25	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.8	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI		The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level		The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status	reviewed	Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami	0	This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG	244	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used		The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.286	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.92 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	113	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mb	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	usc000ttzb	Id of event.
Event Code	c000ttzb	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,usc000ttzb,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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