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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Paracas in Peru


Earthquake location -13.9S, -76.19WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Paracas in Peru on Sunday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 12/10/15 / 2015-10-12 04:16:09 / October 12, 2015 @ 4:16 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 46 km (29 miles). Id of earthquake: us2000418i. Event ids that are associated: us2000418i. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:16:09 / 11:16 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -76.19 West, latitude -13.9 South, depth = 46 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Nuevo Imperial, Santiago, Los Aquijes (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 53 km (33 miles) from Ica (c. 246 800 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Chincha Alta (c. 153 100 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Pisco (c. 61 900 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Nuevo Imperial (c. 32 300 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from San Clemente (c. 15 800 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Villa Tupac Amaru (c. 11 200 pop).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 9 km ESE of Paracas, Peru. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -76.19° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -13.9° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 46 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km ESE of Paracas, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-10-12 04:16:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-02 00:13:24 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.57 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 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 us2000418i Id of event.
Event Code 2000418i An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000418i, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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