Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag strikes near Callao in Peru

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) strikes 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Callao in Peru on Friday. Id of earthquake: us2000bty9. Event ids that are associated: us2000bty9. Exact location of event, longitude -77.3087 West, latitude -11.9018 South, depth = 52.57 km. The 3.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:24:29 / 2:24 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 24/11/17 / 2017-11-24 07:24:29 / November 24, 2017 @ 7:24 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 52.57 km (33 miles).

Nearby country/countries, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sayán, San Bartolo, Santa Eulalia. Earthquake epicenter was 34 km (21 miles) from Lima (c. 7 737 000 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Callao (c. 813 300 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Surco (c. 251 600 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Chosica (c. 88 600 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from San Isidro (c. 68 300 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Huaral (c. 62 200 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 25 km NW of Callao, Peru.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-77.3087° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-11.9018° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	52.57 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	25km NW of Callao, Peru	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-11-24 07:24:29	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-11-24 16:32:39	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	8	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.1	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	225	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	0.464	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.04 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	203	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	us2000bty9	Id of event.
Event Code	2000bty9	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000bty9,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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