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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag has occurred near Huarichancara in Peru

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Huarichancara in Peru. The temblor was picked up at 22:42:16 / 10:42 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 154.06 km (96 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -70.8292° West, latitude -15.5163° South, depth = 154.06 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 01/09/17 / 2017-09-01 03:42:16 / September 1, 2017 @ 3:42 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us2000adra. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000adra.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Azángaro, Puno, Atuncolla (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 75 km (46 miles) from Juliaca (c. 245 700 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Puno (c. 116 600 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Ayaviri (c. 19 300 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Azángaro (c. 13 300 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Atuncolla (c. 12 700 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Hacienda Huancane (c. 7 800 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 three and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 28 km ENE of Huarichancara, Peru. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-70.8292° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-15.5163° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	154.06 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	28km ENE of Huarichancara, Peru	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-09-01 03:42:16	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-09-01 03:56:18	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	2.434	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.05 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	130	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	us2000adra	Id of event.
Event Code	2000adra	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000adra,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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