A 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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