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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Chuquitira in Peru


Earthquake location -17.3461S, -69.9681WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Chuquitira in Peru. Exact location of event, longitude -69.9681 West, latitude -17.3461 South, depth = 142.67 km. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:29:28 / 6:29 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 06/03/16 / 2016-03-06 11:29:28 / March 6, 2016 @ 11:29 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10004whs. Id of event: us10004whs. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 142.67 km (89 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby country/countries, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 80 km (50 miles) from Tacna (c. 280 100 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Ilabaya (c. 9 500 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tacna, Ilabaya.

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

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -69.9681° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.3461° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 142.67 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km SE of Chuquitira, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-03-06 11:29:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-18 11:53:16 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 271 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 2.05 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 118 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 us10004whs Id of event.
Event Code 10004whs An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004whs, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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