A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Pucallpa in Peru. Global time and date of event 01/09/17 / 2017-09-01 22:28:23 / September 1, 2017 @ 10:28 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000ae0g. Unique identifier: us2000ae0g. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:28:23 / 5:28 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 162.01 km (101 miles). Exact location, longitude -74.3274° West, latitude -8.5884° South, depth = 162.01 km.
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Campoverde, Pucallpa (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop). The epicenter was 34 km (21 miles) from Pucallpa (c. 310 800 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Campoverde (c. 8 900 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 one and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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. 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: 34 km SE of Pucallpa, Peru.
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