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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag was detected near Lluta in Peru

Posted by admin on February 11, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -16.1122S, -72.2022WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Lluta in Peru. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:05:51 / 1:05 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 14/01/16 / 2016-01-14 06:05:51 / January 14, 2016 @ 6:05 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 140.14 km (87 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20004zgl. Id of event: us20004zgl. Exact location of earthquake, -72.2022° West, -16.1122° South, depth 140.14 km.

Nearby country/countries, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Camaná, Arequipa, Yura (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) from Arequipa (c. 841 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Camaná (c. 16 400 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Lluta (c. 6 000 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Yura (c. 5 700 pop).

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 two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 22 km WSW of Lluta, Peru. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -72.2022° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -16.1122° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 140.14 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22km WSW of Lluta, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-01-14 06:05:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-02-11 08:47:14 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 2.864 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 268 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 us20004zgl Id of event.
Event Code 20004zgl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20004zgl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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