A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Quilcata in Peru. The temblor was picked up at 02:39:08 / 2:39 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us6000rd0d. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000rd0d. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/09/25 / 2025-09-26 02:39:08 / September 26, 2025 @ 2:39 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 79.868 km (50 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -73.4762° West, -15.2392° South, depth 79.868 km.
Earthquake epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) from Puquio (c. 10 500 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Coracora (c. 7 400 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Tambo (c. 5 000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Puquio, Tambo, Coracora.
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. 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.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 2 km WNW of Quilcata, Peru.
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