Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag strikes near southern Peru

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, near the coast of southern Peru kilometers (0 miles) from southern Peru. The temblor was detected at 16:22:37 / 4:22 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 51.17 km (32 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10004xt9. Id of event: us10004xt9. Exact location of event, depth 51.17 km, -71.5779° West, -17.5684° South. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 10/03/16 / 2016-03-10 16:22:37 / March 10, 2016 @ 4:22 pm.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Moquegua, Mollendo, Cocachacra. Earthquake epicenter was 80 km (49 miles) from Moquegua (c. 54 500 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Ilo (c. 53 500 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Mollendo (c. 29 000 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Cocachacra (c. 8 800 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Pacocha (c. 7 600 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Punta de Bombón (c. 6 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: near the coast of southern Peru. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-71.5779° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-17.5684° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	51.17 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	near the coast of southern Peru	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-03-10 16:22:37	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-04-08 17:29:04	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	234	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	1.421	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.06 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	216	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	us10004xt9	Id of event.
Event Code	10004xt9	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10004xt9,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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