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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Tingo Maria in Peru


Earthquake location -9.2915S, -75.4785WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Tingo Maria in Peru on Saturday. Unique identifier: us100072x2. Ids that are associated to the event: us100072x2. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/10/16 / 2016-10-29 06:09:10 / October 29, 2016 @ 6:09 am. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -75.4785° West, -9.2915° South. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:09:10 / 1:09 am (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 57 km (35 miles) from Tingo María (c. 53 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tingo María (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 six and in the last 365 days twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 58 km E of Tingo Maria, Peru. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -75.4785° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -9.2915° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 58km E of Tingo Maria, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-10-29 06:09:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-11-25 10:20:00 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 271 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 2.995 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 115 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 us100072x2 Id of event.
Event Code 100072x2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100072x2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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