A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Campoverde in Peru. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 00:52:52 / 12:52 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 134.9 km, -74.7638° West, -8.8504° South. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20007ehk. Id of event: us20007ehk. The epicenter was at a depth of 134.9 km (84 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/10/16 / 2016-10-16 05:52:52 / October 16, 2016 @ 5:52 am.
Close country/countries, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 57 km (36 miles) from Pucallpa (c. 310 800 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Campoverde (c. 8 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pucallpa, Campoverde (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 four and in the last 365 days eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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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. 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: 41 km S of Campoverde, Peru.
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