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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 2 km S of Lagunas, Peru

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Earthquake location -5.2513S, -75.6786WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Lagunas in Peru. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 24.94 km (15 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 22/10/17 / 2017-10-22 07:48:06 / October 22, 2017 @ 7:48 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -75.6786° West, -5.2513° South, depth 24.94 km. The temblor was picked up at 02:48:06 / 2:48 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000ayn2. Id of event: us1000ayn2.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yurimaguas, Lagunas (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 87 km (54 miles) from Yurimaguas (c. 41 800 pop), 3 km (2 miles) from Lagunas (c. 9 200 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 three 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: 2 km S of Lagunas, Peru.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -75.6786° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.2513° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 24.94 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km S of Lagunas, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-10-22 07:48:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-11-18 07:57:04 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 271 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 3.498 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 92 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 us1000ayn2 Id of event.
Event Code 1000ayn2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000ayn2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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