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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag strikes near Orcopampa in Peru


Earthquake location -15.4146S, -72.2389WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Orcopampa in Peru. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:38:15 / 9:38 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us100040bu. Event ids that are associated: us100040bu. Exact location of earthquake, -72.2389° West, -15.4146° South, depth 109.43 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 109.43 km (68 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 22/11/15 / 2015-11-22 14:38:15 / November 22, 2015 @ 2:38 pm.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lluta, Orcopampa. Epicenter of the earthquake was 71 km (44 miles) from Lluta (c. 6 000 pop), 20 km (12 miles) from Orcopampa (c. 5 600 pop). Close country/countries, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. 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: 19 km SSE of Orcopampa, Peru.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -72.2389° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -15.4146° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 109.43 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19km SSE of Orcopampa, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-22 14:38:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-22 16:26:42 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 369 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 3.455 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 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 us100040bu Id of event.
Event Code 100040bu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100040bu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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