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Light earthquake, 4 mag was detected near Acari in Peru


Earthquake location -15.9762S, -75.1379WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) strikes 82 kilometers (51 miles) from Acari in Peru on Friday. Unique identifier: us10007sst. Ids that are associated to the event: us10007sst. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/12/16 / 2016-12-16 05:55:00 / December 16, 2016 @ 5:55 am. The temblor was detected at 00:55:00 / 12:55 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -75.1379 West, latitude -15.9762 South, depth = 40.73 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 40.73 km (25 miles).

Nearby country/countries, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from Minas de Marcona (c. 15 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Minas de Marcona (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 82 km SW of Acari, Peru. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -75.1379° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -15.9762° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 40.73 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 82km SW of Acari, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-12-16 05:55:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-12 09:37:40 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 246 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 4.296 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.51 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 165 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 us10007sst Id of event.
Event Code 10007sst An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007sst, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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