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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag strikes near Pimentel in Peru


Earthquake location -7.2173S, -80.547WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 79 kilometers (49 miles) from Pimentel in Peru. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/07/15 / 2015-07-06 11:17:47 / July 6, 2015 @ 11:17 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10002nmu. Id of event: us10002nmu. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:17:47 / 6:17 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 37.73 km (23 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -80.547 West, latitude -7.2173 South, depth = 37.73 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Picsi, Mórrope, San José. Epicenter of the event was 92 km (57 miles) from Chiclayo (c. 577 400 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Lambayeque (c. 43 700 pop), 102 km (64 miles) from Picsi (c. 43 600 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Monsefú (c. 25 700 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Pimentel (c. 15 600 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Eten (c. 13 700 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Santa Rosa (c. 10 600 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 79 km WSW of Pimentel, Peru. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -80.547° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -7.2173° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 37.73 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 79km WSW of Pimentel, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-06 11:17:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-06 11:36:07 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 369 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 5.984 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 153 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 us10002nmu Id of event.
Event Code 10002nmu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10002nmu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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