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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 37 km SSE of Picota, Peru


Earthquake location -7.237S, -76.2101WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Picota in Peru. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 60.16 km (37 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -76.2101 West, latitude -7.237 South, depth = 60.16 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 09:06:33 / 9:06 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/07/16 / 2016-07-27 14:06:33 / July 27, 2016 @ 2:06 pm. Event id: us20006i32. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20006i32.

Event epicenter was 57 km (36 miles) from Juanjuí (c. 37 700 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Bellavista (c. 15 200 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Saposoa (c. 14 900 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from San José de Sisa (c. 9 500 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Chazuta (c. 8 000 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Huicungo (c. 6 800 pop). Close country/countries, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was San José de Sisa, Chazuta, Saposoa.

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 37 km SSE of Picota, Peru. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -76.2101° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -7.237° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 60.16 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 37km SSE of Picota, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-07-27 14:06:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-17 09:53:22 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 284 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 2.169 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 85 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 us20006i32 Id of event.
Event Code 20006i32 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20006i32, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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