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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake strikes near Ilave in Peru


Earthquake location -16.2068S, -69.6063WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (mg/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Ilave in Peru. The temblor was reported at 14:49:33 / 2:49 pm (local time epicenter) at a depth of 210.93 km (131 miles). Global time of event 11/04/15 / 2015-04-11 19:49:33 / April 11, 2015 @ 7:49 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude -69.6063 West, latitude -16.2068 South, depth 210.93 km, unique identifier, us200025v4.

Close countries, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop). The epicenter was 60 km (37 miles) from Puno (c. 116 600 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Yunguyo (c. 16 100 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Ilave (c. 16 000 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Atuncolla (c. 12 700 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Putina (c. 8 100 pop), 17 km (10 miles) from Juli (c. 7 300 pop). Nearest city, towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Putina, Atuncolla, San Pedro.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -69.6063° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -16.2068° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 210.93 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km SSE of Ilave, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-04-11 19:49:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-05-02 05:05:09 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 284 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 1.419 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.38 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 110 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 us200025v4 Id of event.
Event Code 200025v4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200025v4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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