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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Villa Rica in Peru

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 57 kilometers (35 miles) from Villa Rica in Peru. Exact time and date of earthquake 21/11/16 / 2016-11-21 05:28:18 / November 21, 2016 @ 5:28 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us10007b2w. Ids that are associated to the event: us10007b2w. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -74.7471 West, latitude -10.6815 South, depth = 33.51 km. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:28:18 / 12:28 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 33.51 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 65 km (40 miles) from Satipo (c. 15 500 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from San Ramón (c. 14 700 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Oxapampa (c. 12 000 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Villa Rica (c. 7 400 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Perené (c. 6 800 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Mazamari (c. 6 800 pop). Close country/countries, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Ramón, Mazamari, Oxapampa (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 57 km E of Villa Rica, Peru. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-74.7471° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-10.6815° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	33.51 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	57km E of Villa Rica, Peru	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-11-21 05:28:18	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-11-21 07:17:09	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.1	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	2.43	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.15 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	64	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	us10007b2w	Id of event.
Event Code	10007b2w	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10007b2w,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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