Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Santiago in Peru

A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 69 kilometers (43 miles) from Santiago in Peru on Saturday. Exact location, longitude -76.2389° West, latitude -14.5579° South, depth = 22.37 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 22.37 km (14 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 22:13:24 / 10:13 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/08/15 / 2015-08-23 03:13:24 / August 23, 2015 @ 3:13 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100034bl. Id of event: us100034bl.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 77 km (48 miles) from Ica (c. 246 800 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Santiago (c. 10 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Subtanjalla (c. 9 100 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Los Aquijes (c. 7 800 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from San Juan Bautista (c. 6 900 pop). Nearby country/countries, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Juan Bautista, Subtanjalla, Los Aquijes (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 69 km SW of Santiago, Peru. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-76.2389° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-14.5579° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	22.37 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	69km SW of Santiago, Peru	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-08-23 03:13:24	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-09-15 23:17:57	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	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		The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	6.809	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.59 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	204	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	us100034bl	Id of event.
Event Code	100034bl	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us100034bl,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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