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Light earthquake, 4 mag strikes near Tacna in Peru


Earthquake location -18.1451S, -70.1073WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was reported 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Tacna in Peru on Monday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/07/19 / 2019-07-08 21:05:37 / July 8, 2019 @ 9:05 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us70004f5w. Event ids that are associated: us70004f5w. The temblor was reported at 16:05:37 / 4:05 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 107.53 km (67 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -70.1073° West, -18.1451° South, depth 107.53 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Arica, Tacna. Event epicenter was 21 km (13 miles) from Tacna (c. 280 100 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Arica (c. 186 000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop), Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 21 km SE of Tacna, Peru.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -70.1073° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -18.1451° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 107.53 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km SE of Tacna, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-07-08 21:05:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-08 22:57:35 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 246 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 0.316 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.94 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 128 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 us70004f5w Id of event.
Event Code 70004f5w An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70004f5w, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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