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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Torata in Peru


Earthquake location -16.9068S, -70.7237WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Torata in Peru on Wednesday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 30/03/16 / 2016-03-30 13:47:06 / March 30, 2016 @ 1:47 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us20005ddv. Unique identifier: us20005ddv. Exact location of event, depth 33.34 km, -70.7237° West, -16.9068° South. The temblor was detected at 08:47:06 / 8:47 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 33.34 km (21 miles).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ilabaya, Moquegua, Torata. The epicenter was 39 km (25 miles) from Moquegua (c. 54 500 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Ilabaya (c. 9 500 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Torata (c. 7 100 pop). Nearby country/countries, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 three and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. 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: 22 km NE of Torata, Peru.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -70.7237° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -16.9068° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 33.34 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22km NE of Torata, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-03-30 13:47:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-24 05:57:43 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 1.5 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.42 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 131 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 us20005ddv Id of event.
Event Code 20005ddv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005ddv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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