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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Puno in Peru

Posted by admin on June 3, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location -15.8486S, -69.9179WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Puno in Peru. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 237.16 km (147 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:13:32 / 11:13 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us10008sat. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10008sat. Exact location of event, depth 237.16 km, -69.9179° West, -15.8486° South. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/05/17 / 2017-05-14 04:13:32 / May 14, 2017 @ 4:13 am.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 45 km (28 miles) from Juliaca (c. 245 700 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Puno (c. 116 600 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Ilave (c. 16 000 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Atuncolla (c. 12 700 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Putina (c. 8 100 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Juli (c. 7 300 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Putina, Juli, Juliaca. Country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop).

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

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -69.9179° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -15.8486° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 237.16 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km E of Puno, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-05-14 04:13:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-06-03 22:28:46 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 1.772 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.52 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 203 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10008sat Id of event.
Event Code 10008sat An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008sat, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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