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Light earthquake, 4 mag has occurred near Piura in Peru


Earthquake location -5.1163S, -80.8124WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Piura in Peru. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/05/16 / 2016-05-27 13:27:33 / May 27, 2016 @ 1:27 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us20005z5v. Unique identifier: us20005z5v. Exact location of earthquake, -80.8124° West, -5.1163° South, depth 35 km. The temblor was detected at 08:27:33 / 8:27 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 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).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Las Lomas, Talara, Chulucanas (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 22 km (13 miles) from Piura (c. 325 500 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Sullana (c. 160 800 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Talara (c. 99 100 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Chulucanas (c. 68 800 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Catacaos (c. 57 300 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Paita (c. 56 200 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 21 km WNW of Piura, Peru.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -80.8124° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.1163° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km WNW of Piura, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-05-27 13:27:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-11 07:57:19 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 246 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 5.817 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.26 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 144 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 us20005z5v Id of event.
Event Code 20005z5v An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005z5v, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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