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


Earthquake location -15.1356S, -71.7308WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 48 kilometers (30 miles) from Ccolo in Peru. The temblor was reported at 18:15:59 / 6:15 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000afqa. Unique identifier: us2000afqa. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -71.7308 West, latitude -15.1356 South, depth = 124.99 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 04/09/17 / 2017-09-04 23:15:59 / September 4, 2017 @ 11:15 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 124.99 km (78 miles).

Close country/countries, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from Orcopampa (c. 5 600 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Orcopampa.

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 four and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 48 km NNW of Ccolo, Peru.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.7308° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -15.1356° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 124.99 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 48km NNW of Ccolo, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-09-04 23:15:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-06 01:46:24 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 3.259 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 141 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 us2000afqa Id of event.
Event Code 2000afqa An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000afqa, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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