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Light earthquake 4.1 mag, 80 km S of Ilo, Peru


Earthquake location -18.361S, -71.4428WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 80 kilometers (50 miles) from Ilo in Peru. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/03/18 / 2018-03-05 02:54:06 / March 5, 2018 @ 2:54 am. Exact location, longitude -71.4428° West, latitude -18.361° South, depth = 22.23 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 22.23 km (14 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000dc9v. Id of event: us2000dc9v. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:54:06 / 9:54 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) from Ilo (c. 53 500 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Pacocha (c. 7 600 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pacocha, Ilo. Close country/countries, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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: 80 km S of Ilo, Peru. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.4428° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -18.361° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 22.23 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 80km S of Ilo, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-03-05 02:54:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-05 03:13:41 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 259 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 1.087 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 140 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000dc9v Id of event.
Event Code 2000dc9v An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000dc9v, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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