Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Earthquake breaking news, Light World Earthquakes Magnitude 4-4.9

Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Santa Eulalia in Peru

Posted by admin on October 24, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -11.6525S, -76.9286WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Santa Eulalia in Peru. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:21:02 / 10:21 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -76.9286 West, latitude -11.6525 South, depth = 72.15 km. Id of earthquake: us20007gdz. Event ids that are associated: us20007gdz. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 72.15 km (45 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/10/16 / 2016-10-24 15:21:02 / October 24, 2016 @ 3:21 pm.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Morococha, San Bartolo, Sayán (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 45 km (28 miles) from Lima (c. 7 737 000 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Callao (c. 813 300 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Surco (c. 251 600 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Chosica (c. 88 600 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from San Isidro (c. 68 300 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Huaral (c. 62 200 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

How would you describe the shaking?

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. 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: 34 km NW of Santa Eulalia, Peru.

Copyright © 2016 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -76.9286° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -11.6525° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 72.15 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 34km NW of Santa Eulalia, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-10-24 15:21:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-24 16:02:35 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 4 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.6 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 300 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 0.343 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 170 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 us20007gdz Id of event.
Event Code 20007gdz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20007gdz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply

Follow us!

Tsunami videos

Categories

Information

Information and facts about all earthquakes today. Earthquake news and analysis on current events, Plate Tectonics, Seismometers, quake prediction, environment, Tsunamis, Seismologists, Prediction, live now, videos, information, pictures and much more. Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today.

© 2024 Earthquakes today - Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today