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Light earthquake: M4 quake has struck near Orcopampa in Peru


Earthquake location -15.8221S, -72.6483WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) strikes 69 kilometers (43 miles) from Orcopampa in Peru on Wednesday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 90.33 km (56 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us70008rus. Event ids that are associated: us70008rus. The 4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:43:51 / 1:43 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -72.6483° West, latitude -15.8221° South, depth = 90.33 km. Global time and date of event 08/04/20 / 2020-04-08 18:43:51 / April 8, 2020 @ 6:43 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Camaná, Lluta, Orcopampa (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 89 km (56 miles) from Camaná (c. 16 400 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Lluta (c. 6 000 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Orcopampa (c. 5 600 pop).

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

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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: 69 km SSW of Orcopampa, Peru.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -72.6483° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -15.8221° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 90.33 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 69km SSW of Orcopampa, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-04-08 18:43:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-15 23:29:50 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 3.359 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.6 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 133 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 us70008rus Id of event.
Event Code 70008rus An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008rus, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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