A light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported southern Peru kilometers (0 miles) from southern Peru on Tuesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 08:18:58 / 8:18 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us20004yyb. Ids that are associated to the event: us20004yyb. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/02/16 / 2016-02-09 08:18:58 / February 9, 2016 @ 8:18 am. Exact location of event, longitude -73.3115 West, latitude -15.5155 South, depth = 74.09 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 74.09 km (46 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Coracora (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Coracora (c. 7 400 pop).
Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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