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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Santo Tomas in Peru


Earthquake location -14.5569S, -72.3701WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Santo Tomas in Peru on Tuesday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/03/19 / 2019-03-12 18:06:30 / March 12, 2019 @ 6:06 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -72.3701 West, latitude -14.5569 South, depth = 85.16 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000je8b. Id of event: us1000je8b. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:06:30 / 1:06 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 85.16 km (53 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

The epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Orcopampa (c. 5 600 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Orcopampa.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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: 33 km WSW of Santo Tomas, Peru.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -72.3701° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -14.5569° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 85.16 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 33km WSW of Santo Tomas, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-03-12 18:06:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-12 19:45:21 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 312 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 4.262 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 122 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 us1000je8b Id of event.
Event Code 1000je8b An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000je8b, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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