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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Paita in Peru

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Paita in Peru on Tuesday. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:36:48 / 10:36 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/10/16 / 2016-10-25 15:36:48 / October 25, 2016 @ 3:36 pm. Exact location of event, depth 29.33 km, -81.2859° West, -4.8954° South. Id of earthquake: us20007gm4. Event ids that are associated: us20007gm4. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 29.33 km (18 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Máncora, Sechura, Bernal (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop). The epicenter was 80 km (49 miles) from Piura (c. 325 500 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Sullana (c. 160 800 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Talara (c. 99 100 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Catacaos (c. 57 300 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Paita (c. 56 200 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from La Unión (c. 34 800 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Marcavelica (c. 25 600 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 one and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 28 km NW of Paita, Peru. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-81.2859° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-4.8954° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	29.33 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	28km NW of Paita, Peru	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-10-25 15:36:48	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-10-25 16:44:21	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	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	1.808	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.66 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	148	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	us20007gm4	Id of event.
Event Code	20007gm4	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20007gm4,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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