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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Paracas in Peru


Earthquake location -14.3092S, -76.6866WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 66 kilometers (41 miles) from Paracas in Peru. The temblor was detected at 22:51:21 / 10:51 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20003g77. Id of event: us20003g77. Exact time and date of earthquake 04/09/15 / 2015-09-04 03:51:21 / September 4, 2015 @ 3:51 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -76.6866° West, latitude -14.3092° South, depth = 23.07 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 23.07 km (14 miles).

Event epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from Pisco (c. 61 900 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from San Clemente (c. 15 800 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Villa Tupac Amaru (c. 11 200 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Clemente, Villa Tupac Amaru, Pisco (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days thirteen 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 66 km SW of Paracas, Peru. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -76.6866° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -14.3092° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 23.07 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 66km SW of Paracas, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-09-04 03:51:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-23 23:59:21 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 2.312 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 197 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 us20003g77 Id of event.
Event Code 20003g77 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003g77, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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