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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Ilave in Peru


Earthquake location -16.0129S, -69.7916WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Ilave in Peru. Event id: us10003mdx. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10003mdx. The temblor was picked up at 23:09:35 / 11:09 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 09/10/15 / 2015-10-09 04:09:35 / October 9, 2015 @ 4:09 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 213.16 km (132 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude -69.7916° West, latitude -16.0129° South, depth = 213.16 km.

Nearby country/countries, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yunguyo, Putina, Juliaca (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 68 km (42 miles) from Juliaca (c. 245 700 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Puno (c. 116 600 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Yunguyo (c. 16 100 pop), 15 km (10 miles) from Ilave (c. 16 000 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Atuncolla (c. 12 700 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Putina (c. 8 100 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Juli (c. 7 300 pop).

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 ten 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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 15 km WNW of Ilave, Peru.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -69.7916° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -16.0129° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 213.16 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km WNW of Ilave, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-10-09 04:09:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-10-09 04:38:34 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 1.619 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.04 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 134 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 us10003mdx Id of event.
Event Code 10003mdx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003mdx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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