Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Camana in Peru

A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Camana in Peru on Friday. Exact location of earthquake, -72.4129° West, -16.5298° South, depth 26.42 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/04/16 / 2016-04-01 15:28:50 / April 1, 2016 @ 3:28 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us20005dyn. Event ids that are associated: us20005dyn. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 26.42 km (16 miles). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:28:50 / 10:28 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arequipa, Cocachacra, Yura. Close country/countries, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 95 km (59 miles) from Arequipa (c. 841 100 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Mollendo (c. 29 000 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Camaná (c. 16 400 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Cocachacra (c. 8 800 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Lluta (c. 6 000 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Yura (c. 5 700 pop).

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 one and in the last 365 days twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 33 km ENE of Camana, Peru. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-72.4129° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-16.5298° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	26.42 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	33km ENE of Camana, Peru	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-04-01 15:28:50	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-04-01 19:11:02	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	312	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	2.694	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.88 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	180	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	us20005dyn	Id of event.
Event Code	20005dyn	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20005dyn,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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