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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Papayal in Peru


Earthquake location -3.9807S, -80.733WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Papayal in Peru. The temblor was reported at 08:45:33 / 8:45 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/01/18 / 2018-01-23 13:45:33 / January 23, 2018 @ 1:45 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us2000cn31. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000cn31. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -80.733 West, latitude -3.9807 South, depth = 36.27 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 36.27 km (23 miles) below the earth’s surface.

The epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) from Tumbes (c. 109 200 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Talara (c. 99 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Huaquillas (c. 39 800 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from La Breita (c. 17 700 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Zarumilla (c. 16 900 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Zorritos (c. 12 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Las Lomas, Talara, Celica (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Ecuador (c. 14 791 000 pop), Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 10 km N of Papayal, Peru. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -80.733° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -3.9807° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 36.27 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km N of Papayal, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-01-23 13:45:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-23 16:23:48 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 298 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 0.791 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 167 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 us2000cn31 Id of event.
Event Code 2000cn31 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000cn31, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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