Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near San Ramon in Peru

A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 15 kilometers (9 miles) from San Ramon in Peru on Tuesday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 11/07/17 / 2017-07-11 22:28:25 / July 11, 2017 @ 10:28 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us20009xe6. Event ids that are associated: us20009xe6. The temblor was detected at 17:28:25 / 5:28 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -75.4363 West, latitude -11.0043 South, depth = 17.23 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 17.23 km (11 miles).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 54 km (33 miles) from Tarma (c. 51 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from La Oroya (c. 33 300 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Jauja (c. 21 100 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Satipo (c. 15 500 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Junín (c. 15 300 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from San Ramón (c. 14 700 pop). 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 Satipo, Jauja, Acolla.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 15 km NW of San Ramon, 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	-75.4363° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-11.0043° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	17.23 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	15km NW of San Ramon, Peru	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-07-11 22:28:25	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-07-21 22:21:31	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	1.689	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.45 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	88	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	us20009xe6	Id of event.
Event Code	20009xe6	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20009xe6,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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