Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Light World Earthquakes Magnitude 4-4.9

Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 31 km ENE of Chuquitira, Peru


Earthquake location -17.2024S, -69.7582WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Chuquitira in Peru. Event id: us7000bhaz. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000bhaz. The temblor was detected at 17:48:29 / 5:48 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 152.11 km (95 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -69.7582 West, latitude -17.2024 South, depth = 152.11 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 03/09/20 / 2020-09-03 17:48:29 / September 3, 2020 @ 5:48 pm UTC/GMT.

Country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from Ilabaya (c. 9 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ilabaya (min 5000 pop).

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 thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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.

How would you describe the shaking?

Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 31 km ENE of Chuquitira, Peru. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Copyright © 2020 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -69.7582° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.2024° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 152.11 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 31 km ENE of Chuquitira, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-09-03 17:48:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-09-10 15:13:57 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 271 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 0.467 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 114 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 us7000bhaz Id of event.
Event Code 7000bhaz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000bhaz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply