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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag strikes near Pisco in Peru

Posted by admin on October 20, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -13.5827S, -76.3018WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Pisco in Peru. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 46.2 km (29 miles). Unique identifier: us20007fff. Ids that are associated to the event: us20007fff. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:31:15 / 2:31 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/10/16 / 2016-10-19 19:31:15 / October 19, 2016 @ 7:31 pm. Exact location of earthquake, -76.3018° West, -13.5827° South, depth 46.2 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Santiago, Los Aquijes, Ica. The epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Ica (c. 246 800 pop), 27 km (16 miles) from Chincha Alta (c. 153 100 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Pisco (c. 61 900 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Imperial (c. 32 300 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Nuevo Imperial (c. 32 300 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from San Vicente de Cañete (c. 25 500 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from San Clemente (c. 15 800 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 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 nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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: 15 km NW of Pisco, Peru.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -76.3018° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -13.5827° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 46.2 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km NW of Pisco, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-10-19 19:31:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-20 00:05:02 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 2.2 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 340 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 1.67 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.08 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 100 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 us20007fff Id of event.
Event Code 20007fff An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20007fff, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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