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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 13 km S of Matucana, Peru


Earthquake location -11.9671S, -76.4144WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Matucana in Peru. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 14:36:06 / 2:36 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 14/10/17 / 2017-10-14 19:36:06 / October 14, 2017 @ 7:36 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -76.4144° West, latitude -11.9671° South, depth = 10 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Id of earthquake: us1000as9q. Event ids that are associated: us1000as9q.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mala, Callao, La Oroya (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from Lima (c. 7 737 000 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Callao (c. 813 300 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Surco (c. 251 600 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Chosica (c. 88 600 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from San Isidro (c. 68 300 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from La Oroya (c. 33 300 pop). Close country/countries, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 three and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 13 km S of Matucana, Peru.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -76.4144° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -11.9671° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km S 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 2017-10-14 19:36:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-14 21:40:02 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 0.419 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 87 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 us1000as9q Id of event.
Event Code 1000as9q An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000as9q, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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