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Light earthquake 4.1 mag, 20 km SSW of San Vicente de Canete, Peru

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Earthquake location -13.2329S, -76.4814WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 20 kilometers (12 miles) from San Vicente de Canete in Peru on Monday. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:58:29 / 6:58 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 63.94 km (40 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us100040b4. Unique identifier: us100040b4. Exact location of earthquake, -76.4814° West, -13.2329° South, depth 63.94 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/11/15 / 2015-11-16 11:58:29 / November 16, 2015 @ 11:58 am.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Chilca, Mala, Villa Tupac Amaru. Epicenter of the earthquake was 43 km (26 miles) from Chincha Alta (c. 153 100 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Pisco (c. 61 900 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Imperial (c. 32 300 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Nuevo Imperial (c. 32 300 pop), 20 km (13 miles) from San Vicente de Cañete (c. 25 500 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Mala (c. 17 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop).

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. 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 six 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. 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: 20 km SSW of San Vicente de Canete, Peru.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -76.4814° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -13.2329° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 63.94 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20km SSW of San Vicente de Canete, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-16 11:58:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-01 07:01:27 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 259 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 1.287 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.9 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 197 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us100040b4 Id of event.
Event Code 100040b4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100040b4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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