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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Santa Rosa in Peru


Earthquake location -10.7944S, -74.5776WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Santa Rosa in Peru. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/10/20 / 2020-10-19 13:18:52 / October 19, 2020 @ 1:18 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -74.5776 West, latitude -10.7944 South, depth = 58.89 km. The temblor was reported at 13:18:52 / 1:18 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 58.89 km (37 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000c9ew. Unique identifier: us6000c9ew.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 51 km (32 miles) from Satipo (c. 15 500 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from San Ramón (c. 14 700 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Oxapampa (c. 12 000 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Villa Rica (c. 7 400 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Perené (c. 6 800 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Mazamari (c. 6 800 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Oxapampa, San Ramón, Villa Rica. Close 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 earthquakes in the world. 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 eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

Questions or comments?

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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 36 km ENE of Santa Rosa, Peru.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -74.5776° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -10.7944° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 58.89 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 36 km ENE of Santa Rosa, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-10-19 13:18:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-10-19 13:55:44 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 326 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.517 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.54 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 84 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 us6000c9ew Id of event.
Event Code 6000c9ew An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000c9ew, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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