A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 46 kilometers (29 miles) from San Juan in Peru on Wednesday. Unique identifier: us6000rci5. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000rci5. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:01:25 / 11:01 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 24/09/25 / 2025-09-24 11:01:25 / September 24, 2025 @ 11:01 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -75.2486° West, latitude -15.7813° South, depth = 10 km. 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 10 km (6 miles).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Minas de Marcona. Event epicenter was 65 km (40 miles) from Minas de Marcona (c. 15 500 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. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 46 km SSW of San Juan, Peru. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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