A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Minas de Marcona in Peru. Unique identifier: us1000bkid. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000bkid. The temblor was detected at 02:51:28 / 2:51 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 03/12/17 / 2017-12-03 07:51:28 / December 3, 2017 @ 7:51 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -75.4838 West, latitude -15.0965 South, depth = 27.26 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 27.26 km (17 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Palpa, Nazca, Minas de Marcona. Event epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) from Nazca (c. 23 600 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Minas de Marcona (c. 15 500 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Palpa (c. 5 900 pop). Close country/countries, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop) (That might be effected).
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 was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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: 42 km WNW of Minas de Marcona, Peru.
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