A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Cayarani in Peru. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 93.382 km (58 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/05/25 / 2025-05-13 07:10:52 / May 13, 2025 @ 7:10 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000pyy8. Unique identifier: us7000pyy8. Exact location of earthquake, -72.3745° West, -14.7622° South, depth 93.382 km. The temblor was reported at 07:10:52 / 7:10 am (local time epicenter).
Epicenter of the event was 56 km (35 miles) from Orcopampa (c. 5 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Orcopampa (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop) (That might be effected).
There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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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: 39 km WSW of Cayarani, Peru.
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