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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Desaguadero in Peru


Earthquake location -16.9203S, -69.4912WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 61 kilometers (38 miles) from Desaguadero in Peru. Global time and date of event 20/03/17 / 2017-03-20 21:02:54 / March 20, 2017 @ 9:02 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:02:54 / 4:02 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us20008te5. Unique identifier: us20008te5. Exact location of earthquake, -69.4912° West, -16.9203° South, depth 188.7 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 188.7 km (117 miles).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 86 km (54 miles) from Yunguyo (c. 16 100 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Juli (c. 7 300 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Desaguadero (c. 5 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Yunguyo, Juli, Desaguadero (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 61 km SW of Desaguadero, Peru. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -69.4912° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -16.9203° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 188.7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 61km SW of Desaguadero, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-03-20 21:02:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-03-20 21:36:08 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 284 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 0.665 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.21 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 94 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 us20008te5 Id of event.
Event Code 20008te5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20008te5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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