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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near La Breita in Peru

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from La Breita in Peru. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 34 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us2000br8k. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000br8k. Global time and date of event 19/11/17 / 2017-11-19 03:35:48 / November 19, 2017 @ 3:35 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 34 km, -80.6979° West, -4.2698° South. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 22:35:48 / 10:35 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Salinera Colán, Macará, Celica (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Sullana (c. 160 800 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Tumbes (c. 109 200 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Talara (c. 99 100 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Tambo Grande (c. 30 000 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Marcavelica (c. 25 600 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Querecotillo (c. 25 400 pop).

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 eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 21 km E of La Breita, Peru.

Celica La Breita Macará Marcavelica Peru Querecotillo Salinera Colán Sullana Talara Tambo Grande Tumbes

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-80.6979° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-4.2698° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	34 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	21km E of La Breita, Peru	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-11-19 03:35:48	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-11-19 03:51:27	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	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	0.748	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.3 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	181	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	us2000br8k	Id of event.
Event Code	2000br8k	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000br8k,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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