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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Santo Tomas in Peru


Earthquake location -14.9121S, -71.9027WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 55 kilometers (34 miles) from Santo Tomas in Peru. Unique identifier: us70006s1l. Ids that are associated to the event: us70006s1l. Exact location of event, depth 133.31 km, -71.9027° West, -14.9121° South. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 133.31 km (83 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 19:11:11 / 7:11 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/12/19 / 2019-12-29 00:11:11 / December 29, 2019 @ 12:11 am.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Orcopampa. Earthquake epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from Orcopampa (c. 5 600 pop). Close country/countries, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Every 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 four and in the last 365 days eighteen 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 55 km SSE of Santo Tomas, Peru. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.9027° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -14.9121° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 133.31 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 55km SSE 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 2019-12-29 00:11:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-29 00:34:00 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 326 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 3.535 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.97 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 us70006s1l Id of event.
Event Code 70006s1l An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006s1l, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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