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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Chipispaya in Peru


Earthquake location -17.4794S, -70.2296WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Chipispaya in Peru. The temblor was reported at 23:49:16 / 11:49 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -70.2296° West, latitude -17.4794° South, depth = 120.162 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rt99. Id of event: us6000rt99. 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 120.162 km (75 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/12/25 / 2025-12-07 23:49:16 / December 7, 2025 @ 11:49 pm.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Moquegua, Torata, Tacna (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 60 km (37 miles) from Tacna (c. 280 100 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Moquegua (c. 54 500 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Ilabaya (c. 9 500 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Torata (c. 7 100 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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: 2 km NNW of Chipispaya, Peru. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -70.2296° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.4794° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 120.162 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2 km NNW of Chipispaya, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-12-07 23:49:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-12-08 06:10:27 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 24 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.723 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.55 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 220 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 us6000rt99 Id of event.
Event Code 6000rt99 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rt99, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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