Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Viru in Peru

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Viru in Peru. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/08/15 / 2015-08-29 06:00:19 / August 29, 2015 @ 6:00 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 60.99 km (38 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us20003m5g. Unique identifier: us20003m5g. The temblor was detected at 01:00:19 / 1:00 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 60.99 km, -78.9062° West, -8.3975° South.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Quiruvilca, Paiján, Santiago de Chuco (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 34 km (21 miles) from Trujillo (c. 747 500 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Chimbote (c. 317 000 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Chocope (c. 32 400 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Laredo (c. 24 700 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Moche (c. 22 600 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Santiago de Cao (c. 22 000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 five 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: 17 km W of Viru, Peru. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-78.9062° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-8.3975° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	60.99 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	17km W of Viru, Peru	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-08-29 06:00:19	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-09-20 09:53:18	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	271	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	4.105	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.62 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	181	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	us20003m5g	Id of event.
Event Code	20003m5g	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20003m5g,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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