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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 237 km NNE of Barranca, Peru


Earthquake location -2.9819S, -75.6151WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 237 km NNE of Barranca, Peru (147 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 12/07/15 / 2015-07-12 09:47:04 / July 12, 2015 @ 9:47 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20002wwy. Id of event: us20002wwy. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 131.82 km (82 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 04:47:04 / 4:47 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -75.6151 West, latitude -2.9819 South, depth = 131.82 km.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 237 km NNE of Barranca, Peru.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -75.6151° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -2.9819° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 131.82 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 237km NNE of Barranca, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-12 09:47:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-12 10:03:28 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 4.273 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 130 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 us20002wwy Id of event.
Event Code 20002wwy An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20002wwy, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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