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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Tabaconas in Peru

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Tabaconas in Peru. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/04/25 / 2025-04-26 02:40:23 / April 26, 2025 @ 2:40 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000pv5z. Id of event: us7000pv5z. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 111.505 km (69 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -79.221° West, -5.2929° South, depth 111.505 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 02:40:23 / 2:40 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ayabaca, Pueblo Nuevo, Morropón (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 65 km (40 miles) from Jaén (c. 52 500 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Pueblo Nuevo (c. 12 500 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Morropón (c. 12 300 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Huancabamba (c. 8 600 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Buenos Aires (c. 7 900 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from San Ignacio (c. 7 900 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 7 km ENE of Tabaconas, Peru. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-79.221° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-5.2929° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	111.505 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	7 km ENE of Tabaconas, Peru	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-04-26 02:40:23	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-04-26 03:09:43	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	26	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	3.959	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	158	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	us7000pv5z	Id of event.
Event Code	7000pv5z	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000pv5z,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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