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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Acari in Peru


Earthquake location -16.0108S, -75.0992WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 82 kilometers (51 miles) from Acari in Peru. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/12/15 / 2015-12-15 23:50:04 / December 15, 2015 @ 11:50 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 39.77 km (25 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 18:50:04 / 6:50 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us20004hgw. Unique identifier: us20004hgw. Exact location of event, longitude -75.0992 West, latitude -16.0108 South, depth = 39.77 km.

The epicenter was 89 km (55 miles) from Minas de Marcona (c. 15 500 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Minas de Marcona (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 82 km SW of Acari, Peru.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -75.0992° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -16.0108° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 39.77 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 82km SW of Acari, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-12-15 23:50:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-16 00:20:59 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 298 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 4.342 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.88 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 165 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 us20004hgw Id of event.
Event Code 20004hgw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20004hgw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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