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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Santiago in Peru

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Santiago in Peru. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/10/16 / 2016-10-17 17:16:01 / October 17, 2016 @ 5:16 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us20007euy. Unique identifier: us20007euy. Exact location of event, depth 51.72 km, -75.4601° West, -14.2181° South. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:16:01 / 12:16 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 51.72 km (32 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Clemente, Villa Tupac Amaru, Nazca. Earthquake epicenter was 33 km (21 miles) from Ica (c. 246 800 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Nazca (c. 23 600 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from San Clemente (c. 15 800 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Villa Tupac Amaru (c. 11 200 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Santiago (c. 10 400 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Subtanjalla (c. 9 100 pop), 28 km (18 miles) from Los Aquijes (c. 7 800 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 two and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 27 km E of Santiago, Peru. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-75.4601° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-14.2181° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	51.72 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	27km E of Santiago, Peru	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-10-17 17:16:01	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-10-17 17:53:25	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	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	312	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	2.594	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.9 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	157	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	us20007euy	Id of event.
Event Code	20007euy	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20007euy,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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