Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Tambo in Peru

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 67 kilometers (42 miles) from Tambo in Peru on Thursday. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:00:06 / 8:00 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -73.3767° West, latitude -14.4913° South, depth = 99.29 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 99.29 km (62 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/05/17 / 2017-05-18 13:00:06 / May 18, 2017 @ 1:00 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us10008taf. Unique identifier: us10008taf.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 93 km (58 miles) from Andahuaylas (c. 17 400 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Puquio (c. 10 500 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Coracora (c. 7 400 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Talavera (c. 7 400 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from San Jerónimo (c. 5 600 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Tambo (c. 5 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Jerónimo, Talavera, Andahuaylas. Close country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 67 km ENE of Tambo, Peru. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-73.3767° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-14.4913° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	99.29 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	67km ENE of Tambo, Peru	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-05-18 13:00:06	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-05-18 17:25:36	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	298	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	4.192	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.01 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	131	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	us10008taf	Id of event.
Event Code	10008taf	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10008taf,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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