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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 60 km S of Paracas, Peru

Posted by admin on January 28, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location -14.4125S, -76.3387WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Paracas in Peru. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/01/17 / 2017-01-28 11:39:42 / January 28, 2017 @ 11:39 am. Id of earthquake: us10007vxh. Event ids that are associated: us10007vxh. Exact location of earthquake, -76.3387° West, -14.4125° South, depth 28.78 km. The temblor was reported at 06:39:42 / 6:39 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 28.78 km (18 miles).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Clemente, Villa Tupac Amaru, Pisco. Epicenter of the event was 76 km (47 miles) from Ica (c. 246 800 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Pisco (c. 61 900 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from San Clemente (c. 15 800 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Villa Tupac Amaru (c. 11 200 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Santiago (c. 10 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Subtanjalla (c. 9 100 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Los Aquijes (c. 7 800 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 sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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: 60 km S of Paracas, Peru.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -76.3387° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -14.4125° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 28.78 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 60km S of Paracas, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-01-28 11:39:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-28 12:06:01 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 2.459 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 155 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 us10007vxh Id of event.
Event Code 10007vxh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007vxh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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