A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Lluta in Peru. Exact location, longitude -71.8781° West, latitude -15.8199° South, depth = 13.59 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/12/15 / 2015-12-08 20:47:07 / December 8, 2015 @ 8:47 pm. The temblor was detected at 15:47:07 / 3:47 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 13.59 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20004fn4. Id of event: us20004fn4.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Orcopampa, Arequipa, Yura. Epicenter of the earthquake was 74 km (46 miles) from Arequipa (c. 841 100 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Lluta (c. 6 000 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Yura (c. 5 700 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Orcopampa (c. 5 600 pop). Nearby 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 26 km NE of Lluta, Peru.
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