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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Arequipa in Peru

Posted by admin on August 17, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -16.52S, -71.74WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Arequipa in Peru. The temblor was detected at 07:36:01 / 7:36 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 20 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 17/08/16 / 2016-08-17 12:36:01 / August 17, 2016 @ 12:36 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -71.74 West, latitude -16.52 South, depth = 20 km. Id of earthquake: us10006ejt. Event ids that are associated: us10006ejt. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Punta de Bombón, Lluta, Cocachacra. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 26 km (16 miles) from Arequipa (c. 841 100 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Mollendo (c. 29 000 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Cocachacra (c. 8 800 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Punta de Bombón (c. 6 300 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Lluta (c. 6 000 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Yura (c. 5 700 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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: 25 km WSW of Arequipa, Peru.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.74° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -16.52° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 20 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 25km WSW of Arequipa, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-08-17 12:36:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-17 21:15:32 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 285 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 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 us10006ejt Id of event.
Event Code 10006ejt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006ejt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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