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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag strikes near Tarauaca in Brazil


Earthquake location -9.7948S, -71.2535WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) strikes 188 km SSW of Tarauaca, Brazil (117 miles) on Thursday. All ids that are associated to the event: us100041im. Unique identifier: us100041im. Exact location, longitude -71.2535° West, latitude -9.7948° South, depth = 609.58 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 26/11/15 / 2015-11-26 13:42:24 / November 26, 2015 @ 1:42 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 609.58 km (379 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 08:42:24 / 8:42 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 188 km SSW of Tarauaca, Brazil.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.2535° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -9.7948° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 609.58 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 188km SSW of Tarauaca, Brazil Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-26 13:42:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-26 14:03:08 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 369 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 2.503 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.88 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 64 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 us100041im Id of event.
Event Code 100041im An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100041im, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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