A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Abancay in Peru on Sunday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/05/16 / 2016-05-16 00:51:13 / May 16, 2016 @ 12:51 am. Unique identifier: us10005hmv. Ids that are associated to the event: us10005hmv. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -73.0132 West, latitude -13.7595 South, depth = 25.61 km. The temblor was detected at 19:51:13 / 7:51 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 25.61 km (16 miles).
Epicenter of the earthquake was 20 km (12 miles) from Abancay (c. 55 100 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Andahuaylas (c. 17 400 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Talavera (c. 7 400 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from San Jerónimo (c. 5 600 pop). Nearby country/countries, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Talavera, Andahuaylas, San Jerónimo (min 5000 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 19 km SW of Abancay, Peru.
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