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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 83 km SSW of Santiago, Peru


Earthquake location -14.8822S, -76.0177WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 83 kilometers (52 miles) from Santiago in Peru. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:06:16 / 8:06 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/03/16 / 2016-03-06 13:06:16 / March 6, 2016 @ 1:06 pm. Event id: us10004vna. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10004vna. The epicenter was at a depth of 9.54 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -76.0177 West, latitude -14.8822 South, depth = 9.54 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Palpa, Ica, Los Aquijes (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 96 km (59 miles) from Ica (c. 246 800 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Santiago (c. 10 400 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Los Aquijes (c. 7 800 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Palpa (c. 5 900 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 83 km SSW of Santiago, Peru. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -76.0177° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -14.8822° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.54 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 83km SSW of Santiago, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-03-06 13:06:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-06 16:16:36 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 326 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 2.987 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 146 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 us10004vna Id of event.
Event Code 10004vna An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004vna, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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