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Light earthquake 4 mag, 12 km SE of Chancay, Peru

Posted by admin on November 1, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location -11.6484S, -77.1824WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Chancay in Peru. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -77.1824 West, latitude -11.6484 South, depth = 66.36 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/11/17 / 2017-11-01 03:36:06 / November 1, 2017 @ 3:36 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000azla. Unique identifier: us1000azla. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 66.36 km (41 miles). The temblor was picked up at 22:36:06 / 10:36 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Végueta, Huaura, Caleta de Carquín. Epicenter of the earthquake was 47 km (29 miles) from Lima (c. 7 737 000 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Callao (c. 813 300 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Surco (c. 251 600 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Chosica (c. 88 600 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from San Isidro (c. 68 300 pop), 17 km (11 miles) from Huaral (c. 62 200 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 12 km SE of Chancay, Peru.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -77.1824° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -11.6484° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 66.36 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km SE of Chancay, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-11-01 03:36:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-11-01 04:06:22 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 4 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.1 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 248 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 0.473 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.63 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 202 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 us1000azla Id of event.
Event Code 1000azla An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000azla, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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