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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Matucana in Peru

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Matucana in Peru. Exact time and date of earthquake 14/09/17 / 2017-09-14 08:19:26 / September 14, 2017 @ 8:19 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us2000am81. Event ids that are associated: us2000am81. Exact location of earthquake, -76.4481° West, -11.977° South, depth 10 km. The temblor was reported at 03:19:26 / 3:19 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was La Oroya, Mala, Callao. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 64 km (39 miles) from Lima (c. 7 737 000 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Callao (c. 813 300 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Surco (c. 251 600 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Chosica (c. 88 600 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from San Isidro (c. 68 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from La Oroya (c. 33 300 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Mala (c. 17 300 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 14 km SSW of Matucana, Peru. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-76.4481° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-11.977° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	14km SSW of Matucana, Peru	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-09-14 08:19:26	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-09-14 08:36:07	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	12	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.4	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	330	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	0.385	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.09 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	101	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	us2000am81	Id of event.
Event Code	2000am81	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000am81,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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