A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Juli in Peru. The temblor was detected at 00:35:40 / 12:35 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 27/11/15 / 2015-11-27 05:35:40 / November 27, 2015 @ 5:35 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us100041mu. Ids that are associated to the event: us100041mu. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 191.77 km (119 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -69.6631 West, latitude -16.6128 South, depth = 191.77 km.
Epicenter of the earthquake was 94 km (58 miles) from Puno (c. 116 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Yunguyo (c. 16 100 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Ilave (c. 16 000 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Juli (c. 7 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Desaguadero (c. 5 300 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from San Pedro (c. 5 000 pop). Close country/countries, Bolivia (c. 9 947 000 pop), Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Pedro, Puno, Yunguyo (min 5000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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