A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 75 kilometers (47 miles) from Acari in Peru. Global time and date of event 29/08/16 / 2016-08-29 19:53:20 / August 29, 2016 @ 7:53 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 58.39 km (36 miles). Exact location, longitude -74.0315° West, latitude -15.8109° South, depth = 58.39 km. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:53:20 / 2:53 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20006v41. Id of event: us20006v41.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Coracora. Country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Coracora (c. 7 400 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days thirteen 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.
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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: 75 km SE of Acari, Peru.
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