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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Callao in Peru

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Callao in Peru. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/10/17 / 2017-10-23 00:09:14 / October 23, 2017 @ 12:09 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 41.04 km (26 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 41.04 km, -77.2423° West, -12.3498° South. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:09:14 / 7:09 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us1000avsu. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000avsu.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Chancay, Santa Eulalia, Mala (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 41 km (26 miles) from Lima (c. 7 737 000 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Callao (c. 813 300 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Surco (c. 251 600 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Chosica (c. 88 600 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from San Isidro (c. 68 300 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Chancay (c. 27 000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Every 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 two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 32 km SSW of Callao, Peru.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-77.2423° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-12.3498° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	41.04 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	32km SSW of Callao, Peru	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-10-23 00:09:14	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-10-23 00:53:52	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	20	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.8	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	292	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	0.531	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.18 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	155	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	us1000avsu	Id of event.
Event Code	1000avsu	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000avsu,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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