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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Locumba in Peru


Earthquake location -17.571S, -70.9416WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Locumba in Peru. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 105.44 km (66 miles). Exact location, longitude -70.9416° West, latitude -17.571° South, depth = 105.44 km. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:09:41 / 6:09 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 26/10/20 / 2020-10-26 06:09:41 / October 26, 2020 @ 6:09 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000c818. Id of event: us7000c818.

Close country/countries, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tacna, Torata, Ilabaya (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 88 km (55 miles) from Tacna (c. 280 100 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Moquegua (c. 54 500 pop), 43 km (26 miles) from Ilo (c. 53 500 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Ilabaya (c. 9 500 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Pacocha (c. 7 600 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Torata (c. 7 100 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 eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 19 km WNW of Locumba, Peru.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -70.9416° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.571° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 105.44 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19 km WNW of Locumba, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-10-26 06:09:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-11-21 08:02:06 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 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 0.979 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 148 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 us7000c818 Id of event.
Event Code 7000c818 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000c818, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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