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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 16 km ENE of Contamana, Peru


Earthquake location -7.2539S, -74.8913WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Contamana in Peru. Exact time and date of earthquake 09/05/16 / 2016-05-09 01:22:44 / May 9, 2016 @ 1:22 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 128.68 km (80 miles). Exact location, longitude -74.8913° West, latitude -7.2539° South, depth = 128.68 km. The temblor was detected at 20:22:44 / 8:22 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us10005fys. Event ids that are associated: us10005fys. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

The epicenter was 16 km (10 miles) from Contamana (c. 13 900 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Contamana.

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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 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: 16 km ENE of Contamana, Peru.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -74.8913° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -7.2539° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 128.68 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km ENE of Contamana, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-05-09 01:22:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-09 01:51:31 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 2.219 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.21 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 117 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 us10005fys Id of event.
Event Code 10005fys An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005fys, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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