Minor earthquake: M3.9 quake has struck near Callao in Peru

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Callao in Peru. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -77.3447 West, latitude -12.2084 South, depth = 38.96 km. Unique identifier: us10007ttd. Ids that are associated to the event: us10007ttd. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 38.96 km (24 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/01/17 / 2017-01-17 23:44:20 / January 17, 2017 @ 11:44 pm. The 3.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:44:20 / 6:44 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 39 km (24 miles) from Lima (c. 7 737 000 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Callao (c. 813 300 pop), 38 km (23 miles) from Surco (c. 251 600 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Chosica (c. 88 600 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from San Isidro (c. 68 300 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Huaral (c. 62 200 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Santa Eulalia, Huaral, Asentamiento Humano Nicolas de Pierola (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop).

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 thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 26 km SW of Callao, Peru. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-77.3447° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-12.2084° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	38.96 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	26km SW of Callao, Peru	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-01-17 23:44:20	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-01-18 00:05:30	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	3	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.7	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	235	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	0.538	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.62 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	199	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	us10007ttd	Id of event.
Event Code	10007ttd	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10007ttd,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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