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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Lampa in Peru


Earthquake location -15.4399S, -70.5882WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Lampa in Peru. Global time and date of event 12/01/16 / 2016-01-12 14:09:52 / January 12, 2016 @ 2:09 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -70.5882 West, latitude -15.4399 South, depth = 196.57 km. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:09:52 / 9:09 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us10004fdq. Unique identifier: us10004fdq. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 196.57 km (122 miles) below the earth’s surface.

The epicenter was 49 km (31 miles) from Juliaca (c. 245 700 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Puno (c. 116 600 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Ayaviri (c. 19 300 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Azángaro (c. 13 300 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Atuncolla (c. 12 700 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Hacienda Huancane (c. 7 800 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Puno, Azángaro, Ayaviri (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 25 km WSW of Lampa, Peru.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -70.5882° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -15.4399° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 196.57 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 25km WSW of Lampa, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-01-12 14:09:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-02-04 22:29:56 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 312 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 2.51 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.5 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 122 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 us10004fdq Id of event.
Event Code 10004fdq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004fdq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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