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Light earthquake 4.7 mag, 9 km W of Villa Rica, Peru


Earthquake location -10.7436S, -75.352WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Villa Rica in Peru. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35.63 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000a7ye. Unique identifier: us2000a7ye. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 01:25:18 / 1:25 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 14/08/17 / 2017-08-14 06:25:18 / August 14, 2017 @ 6:25 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -75.352 West, latitude -10.7436 South, depth = 35.63 km.

Event epicenter was 99 km (62 miles) from Cerro de Pasco (c. 78 900 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Tarma (c. 51 400 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Satipo (c. 15 500 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Junín (c. 15 300 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from San Ramón (c. 14 700 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Oxapampa (c. 12 000 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Carhuamayo (c. 9 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cerro de Pasco, Satipo, Junín (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 9 km W of Villa Rica, Peru. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -75.352° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -10.7436° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35.63 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km W 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 2017-08-14 06:25:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-08-14 07:05:15 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 340 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 1.914 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.9 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 91 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 us2000a7ye Id of event.
Event Code 2000a7ye An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000a7ye, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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