A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 88 kilometers (55 miles) from Camana in Peru. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 14/03/16 / 2016-03-14 04:30:55 / March 14, 2016 @ 4:30 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -73.4759 West, latitude -16.9297 South, depth = 35 km. The temblor was picked up at 23:30:55 / 11:30 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us20005aal. Event ids that are associated: us20005aal.
Event epicenter was 88 km (55 miles) from Camaná (c. 16 400 pop). Close country/countries, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Camaná (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 four and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 88 km WSW of Camana, Peru.
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