Light earthquake, 4.1 mag was detected near Callao in Peru

A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Callao in Peru. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 01/03/17 / 2017-03-01 09:10:47 / March 1, 2017 @ 9:10 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 04:10:47 / 4:10 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -77.3782° West, -12.1785° South, depth 35 km. Id of earthquake: us100086dw. Event ids that are associated: us100086dw.

Country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 41 km (25 miles) from Lima (c. 7 737 000 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Callao (c. 813 300 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Surco (c. 251 600 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Chosica (c. 88 600 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from San Isidro (c. 68 300 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Huaral (c. 62 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Santa Eulalia, Chilca, Huaral (min 5000 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 struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 27 km WSW of Callao, Peru. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-77.3782° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-12.1785° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	35 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	27km WSW 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	2017-03-01 09:10:47	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-03-01 23:08:03	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	259	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	0.557	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.14 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	181	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	us100086dw	Id of event.
Event Code	100086dw	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us100086dw,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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