Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Ilabaya in Peru

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Ilabaya in Peru on Sunday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 120.52 km (75 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/11/25 / 2025-11-30 07:53:40 / November 30, 2025 @ 7:53 am. The temblor was detected at 07:53:40 / 7:53 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -70.6756 West, latitude -17.3056 South, depth = 120.52 km. Id of earthquake: us7000req1. Event ids that are associated: us7000req1.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tacna, Ilo, Pacocha. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop). The epicenter was 91 km (56 miles) from Tacna (c. 280 100 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Moquegua (c. 54 500 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Ilo (c. 53 500 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Ilabaya (c. 9 500 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Pacocha (c. 7 600 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Torata (c. 7 100 pop).

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 two and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 21 km NW of Ilabaya, Peru.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-70.6756° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-17.3056° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	120.52 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	21 km NW of Ilabaya, Peru	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-11-30 07:53:40	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-11-30 09:04:28	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	284	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	33	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.106	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.76 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	155	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	us7000req1	Id of event.
Event Code	7000req1	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000req1,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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