Minor earthquake 3.8 mag, 59 km NNW of Oxapampa, Peru

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 59 kilometers (37 miles) from Oxapampa in Peru. Unique identifier: us10007atx. Ids that are associated to the event: us10007atx. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 113.99 km (71 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/10/16 / 2016-10-23 08:44:45 / October 23, 2016 @ 8:44 am. Exact location, longitude -75.518° West, latitude -10.0482° South, depth = 113.99 km. The 3.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:44:45 / 3:44 am (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Huánuco (c. 148 000 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Oxapampa (c. 12 000 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Villa Rica (c. 7 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Ambo (c. 6 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Villa Rica, Huánuco, Ambo (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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. 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: 59 km NNW of Oxapampa, Peru.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-75.518° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-10.0482° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	113.99 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	59km NNW of Oxapampa, Peru	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-10-23 08:44:45	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-11-20 08:07:44	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	222	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	2.324	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.95 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	88	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	us10007atx	Id of event.
Event Code	10007atx	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10007atx,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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