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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Lluta in Peru

Posted by admin on April 13, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -15.7584S, -71.9301WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Lluta in Peru. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/04/16 / 2016-04-13 02:48:42 / April 13, 2016 @ 2:48 am. The temblor was picked up at 21:48:42 / 9:48 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us20005hnv. Event ids that are associated: us20005hnv. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -71.9301 West, latitude -15.7584 South, depth = 112.71 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 112.71 km (70 miles).

Nearby country/countries, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Arequipa, Orcopampa, Yura (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 83 km (51 miles) from Arequipa (c. 841 100 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Lluta (c. 6 000 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Yura (c. 5 700 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Orcopampa (c. 5 600 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 two and in the last 365 days thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 29 km NNE of Lluta, Peru. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.9301° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -15.7584° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 112.71 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 29km NNE of Lluta, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-04-13 02:48:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-13 03:18:18 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 271 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 3.009 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.38 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 144 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 us20005hnv Id of event.
Event Code 20005hnv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005hnv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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