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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Tarata in Peru


Earthquake location -17.6595S, -69.5484WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 55 kilometers (34 miles) from Tarata in Peru. Id of earthquake: us20006600. Event ids that are associated: us20006600. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:32:19 / 7:32 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 165.38 km (103 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -69.5484 West, latitude -17.6595 South, depth = 165.38 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 16/06/16 / 2016-06-16 23:32:19 / June 16, 2016 @ 11:32 pm UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the event was 84 km (52 miles) from Tacna (c. 280 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tacna (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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: 55 km ESE of Tarata, Peru.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -69.5484° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.6595° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 165.38 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 55km 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 2016-06-16 23:32:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-27 23:59:53 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 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 0.095 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.51 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 58 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 us20006600 Id of event.
Event Code 20006600 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20006600, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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