Light earthquake, 4 mag strikes near Pacocha in Peru

A light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Pacocha in Peru. Exact location, longitude -71.6652° West, latitude -17.6567° South, depth = 53.676 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000rh7c. Unique identifier: us6000rh7c. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 53.676 km (33 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:05:12 / 12:05 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/10/25 / 2025-10-15 00:05:12 / October 15, 2025 @ 12:05 am.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mollendo, Cocachacra, Punta de Bombón (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 35 km (22 miles) from Ilo (c. 53 500 pop), 80 km (49 miles) from Mollendo (c. 29 000 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Cocachacra (c. 8 800 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Pacocha (c. 7 600 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Punta de Bombón (c. 6 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 34 km W of Pacocha, Peru. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-71.6652° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-17.6567° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	53.676 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	34 km W of Pacocha, Peru	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-10-15 00:05:12	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-10-15 00:56:36	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	246	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	22	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.446	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.91 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	133	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	us6000rh7c	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rh7c	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rh7c,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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