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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Minas de Marcona in Peru


Earthquake location -15.6616S, -75.1641WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Minas de Marcona in Peru. Exact time and date of earthquake 28/04/19 / 2019-04-28 12:46:16 / April 28, 2019 @ 12:46 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 38.11 km (24 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:46:16 / 7:46 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -75.1641 West, latitude -15.6616 South, depth = 38.11 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us70003ded. Unique identifier: us70003ded.

Earthquake epicenter was 50 km (31 miles) from Minas de Marcona (c. 15 500 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Minas de Marcona (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 50 km S of Minas de Marcona, Peru.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -75.1641° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -15.6616° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 38.11 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 50km S of Minas de Marcona, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-04-28 12:46:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-28 13:00:39 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 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 3.999 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 170 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 us70003ded Id of event.
Event Code 70003ded An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003ded, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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