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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 65 km NNE of Tambo, Peru

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 65 kilometers (40 miles) from Tambo in Peru. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 60.78 km (38 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us20003pan. Unique identifier: us20003pan. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/09/15 / 2015-09-26 07:01:04 / September 26, 2015 @ 7:01 am. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:01:04 / 2:01 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -73.5897° West, -14.2979° South, depth 60.78 km.

Epicenter of the event was 75 km (46 miles) from Andahuaylas (c. 17 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Puquio (c. 10 500 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Coracora (c. 7 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Talavera (c. 7 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from San Jerónimo (c. 5 600 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Tambo (c. 5 000 pop). Close country/countries, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Coracora, San Jerónimo, Andahuaylas (min 5000 pop).

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 one and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 65 km NNE of Tambo, Peru.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-73.5897° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-14.2979° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	60.78 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	65km NNE of Tambo, Peru	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-09-26 07:01:04	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-09-26 07:23:27	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	312	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	3.913	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.77 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	us20003pan	Id of event.
Event Code	20003pan	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20003pan,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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