Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near Campoverde in Peru

A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Campoverde in Peru. Exact time and date of earthquake 25/09/16 / 2016-09-25 12:10:41 / September 25, 2016 @ 12:10 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -75.0281 West, latitude -8.3748 South, depth = 126.83 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 126.83 km (79 miles). Unique identifier: us10006sje. Ids that are associated to the event: us10006sje. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 07:10:41 / 7:10 am (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pucallpa, Campoverde (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 52 km (32 miles) from Pucallpa (c. 310 800 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Campoverde (c. 8 900 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 26 km WNW of Campoverde, Peru.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-75.0281° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-8.3748° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	126.83 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	26km WNW of Campoverde, Peru	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-09-25 12:10:41	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-09-25 12:52:01	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		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	326	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	2.388	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.05 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	82	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	us10006sje	Id of event.
Event Code	10006sje	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10006sje,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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