A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) strikes 65 kilometers (40 miles) from Barranca in Peru on Wednesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 15:18:28 / 3:18 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -76.8913 West, latitude -4.2763 South, depth = 105.91 km. Unique identifier: us200062vg. Ids that are associated to the event: us200062vg. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/06/16 / 2016-06-08 20:18:28 / June 8, 2016 @ 8:18 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 105.91 km (66 miles).
Close country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) from Barranca (c. 5 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Barranca (min 5000 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 one and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.
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