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Light earthquake 4.9 mag, 46 km WSW of Rio Grande, Peru


Earthquake location -14.6137S, -75.6209WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Rio Grande in Peru. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/02/19 / 2019-02-19 08:32:19 / February 19, 2019 @ 8:32 am. Exact location of event, longitude -75.6209 West, latitude -14.6137 South, depth = 52.37 km. The temblor was detected at 03:32:19 / 3:32 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us2000jjx5. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000jjx5. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 52.37 km (33 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Event epicenter was 62 km (38 miles) from Ica (c. 246 800 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Nazca (c. 23 600 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Minas de Marcona (c. 15 500 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Santiago (c. 10 400 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Subtanjalla (c. 9 100 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Los Aquijes (c. 7 800 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from San Juan Bautista (c. 6 900 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Minas de Marcona, Nazca, San Juan Bautista (min 5000 pop).

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 thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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: 46 km WSW of Rio Grande, Peru. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -75.6209° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -14.6137° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 52.37 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 46km WSW of Rio Grande, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-02-19 08:32:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-19 08:52:49 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 369 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 2.868 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.99 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 144 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 us2000jjx5 Id of event.
Event Code 2000jjx5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000jjx5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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