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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Santiago in Peru


Earthquake location -14.3023S, -75.627WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Santiago in Peru. The temblor was picked up at 07:08:50 / 7:08 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us20007g3c. Event ids that are associated: us20007g3c. The epicenter was at a depth of 48.49 km (30 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -75.627 West, latitude -14.3023 South, depth = 48.49 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 22/10/16 / 2016-10-22 12:08:50 / October 22, 2016 @ 12:08 pm.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 28 km (18 miles) from Ica (c. 246 800 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Pisco (c. 61 900 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from San Clemente (c. 15 800 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Villa Tupac Amaru (c. 11 200 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Santiago (c. 10 400 pop), 35 km (21 miles) from Subtanjalla (c. 9 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pisco, San Clemente, Villa Tupac Amaru (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop).

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 three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 15 km SE of Santiago, Peru.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -75.627° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -14.3023° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 48.49 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km SE of Santiago, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-10-22 12:08:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-22 12:41:44 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 2.587 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.46 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 161 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 us20007g3c Id of event.
Event Code 20007g3c An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20007g3c, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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