Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Pucallpa in Peru

A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Pucallpa in Peru. Exact location of event, depth 188 km, -74.315° West, -8.3699° South. Unique identifier: us1000bkh5. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000bkh5. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 188 km (117 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 03/12/17 / 2017-12-03 04:37:20 / December 3, 2017 @ 4:37 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 23:37:20 / 11:37 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Event epicenter was 26 km (16 miles) from Pucallpa (c. 310 800 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Campoverde (c. 8 900 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Campoverde, Pucallpa (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every 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 two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 26 km E of Pucallpa, Peru.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-74.315° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-8.3699° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	188 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	26km E of Pucallpa, Peru	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-12-03 04:37:20	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-12-03 05:30:00	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	284	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	1.716	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.65 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	91	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	us1000bkh5	Id of event.
Event Code	1000bkh5	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000bkh5,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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