Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Atiquipa in Peru

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 51 kilometers (32 miles) from Atiquipa in Peru. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -74.8234° West, -15.9267° South, depth 31.464 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000rknz. Unique identifier: us7000rknz. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 31.464 km (20 miles). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:46:03 / 6:46 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/12/25 / 2025-12-25 06:46:03 / December 25, 2025 @ 6:46 am.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Minas de Marcona (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from Minas de Marcona (c. 15 500 pop).

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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 51 km WSW of Atiquipa, Peru. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-74.8234° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-15.9267° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	31.464 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	51 km WSW of Atiquipa, Peru	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-12-25 06:46:03	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-12-25 12:26:24	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	298	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	27	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	4.379	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.29 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	103	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	us7000rknz	Id of event.
Event Code	7000rknz	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000rknz,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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