Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 20 km ESE of Tarata, Peru

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Tarata in Peru. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10005byz. Id of event: us10005byz. The epicenter was at a depth of 154.09 km (96 miles). The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:36:02 / 4:36 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -69.8513° West, -17.5254° South, depth 154.09 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/04/16 / 2016-04-18 21:36:02 / April 18, 2016 @ 9:36 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ilabaya, Tacna (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Tacna (c. 280 100 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Ilabaya (c. 9 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop).

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 twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 20 km ESE of Tarata, Peru.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-69.8513° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-17.5254° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	154.09 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	20km ESE of Tarata, Peru	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-04-18 21:36:02	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-05-03 22:32:07	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	0.869	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.57 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	99	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	us10005byz	Id of event.
Event Code	10005byz	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10005byz,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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