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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag strikes near Chancay in Peru

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Chancay in Peru on Saturday. Exact location of event, longitude -77.2057 West, latitude -11.6379 South, depth = 67.11 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 67.11 km (42 miles). Global time and date of event 09/07/17 / 2017-07-09 01:07:26 / July 9, 2017 @ 1:07 am UTC/GMT. Event id: us100098a3. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100098a3. The temblor was reported at 20:07:26 / 8:07 pm (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 49 km (30 miles) from Lima (c. 7 737 000 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Callao (c. 813 300 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Surco (c. 251 600 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Chosica (c. 88 600 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from San Isidro (c. 68 300 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Huaral (c. 62 200 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Huacho (c. 54 500 pop). Nearby 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 Bartolo, Végueta, Huaura.

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. 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 fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. 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: 9 km SE of Chancay, Peru.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-77.2057° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-11.6379° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	67.11 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9km SE of Chancay, Peru	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-07-09 01:07:26	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-07-09 01:39:29	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	30	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.7	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	351	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	0.497	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.67 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	153	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	us100098a3	Id of event.
Event Code	100098a3	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us100098a3,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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