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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Chivay in Peru

Posted by admin on March 22, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -15.71S, -71.75WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Chivay in Peru. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 11 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:01:50 / 1:01 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us20005bwf. Ids that are associated to the event: us20005bwf. Exact time and date of earthquake 24/02/16 / 2016-02-24 18:01:50 / February 24, 2016 @ 6:01 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 11 km, -71.75° West, -15.71° South.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Orcopampa, Arequipa, Yura (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Arequipa (c. 841 100 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Lluta (c. 6 000 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Yura (c. 5 700 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Orcopampa (c. 5 600 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 17 km WSW of Chivay, Peru.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.75° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -15.71° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17km WSW of Chivay, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-02-24 18:01:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-22 22:31:16 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.39 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 ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us20005bwf Id of event.
Event Code 20005bwf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005bwf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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