Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Huanuco in Peru

A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Huanuco in Peru. All ids that are associated to the event: us100047wg. Unique identifier: us100047wg. Exact location of event, depth 13 km, -76.38° West, -9.9° South. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 14:11:09 / 2:11 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 13 km (8 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/12/15 / 2015-12-13 19:11:09 / December 13, 2015 @ 7:11 pm.

Event epicenter was 15 km (10 miles) from Huánuco (c. 148 000 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Cerro de Pasco (c. 78 900 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Tingo María (c. 53 200 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Chaupimarca (c. 28 700 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Yanacancha (c. 23 200 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Ambo (c. 6 900 pop), 96 km (59 miles) from Oyón (c. 6 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Oyón, Cerro de Pasco, Tingo María (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every 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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 15 km WNW of Huanuco, Peru. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-76.38° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-9.9° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	13 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	15km WNW of Huanuco, Peru	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-12-13 19:11:09	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-01-10 20:27:07	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.3	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	312	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	1.38 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	us100047wg	Id of event.
Event Code	100047wg	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us100047wg,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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