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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Sechura in Peru

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Sechura in Peru. Id of earthquake: us2000d33r. Event ids that are associated: us2000d33r. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/02/18 / 2018-02-16 08:01:26 / February 16, 2018 @ 8:01 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 03:01:26 / 3:01 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -80.9766 West, latitude -5.902 South, depth = 25 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 25 km (16 miles).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Salinera Colán, Paita, Piura. Event epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Piura (c. 325 500 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Catacaos (c. 57 300 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Paita (c. 56 200 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from La Unión (c. 34 800 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Sechura (c. 23 000 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Salinera Colán (c. 14 200 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Vice (c. 12 900 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. 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: 41 km SSW of Sechura, Peru.

Catacaos La Unión Paita Peru Piura Salinera Colán Sechura Vice

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-80.9766° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-5.902° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	25 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	41km SSW of Sechura, Peru	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-02-16 08:01:26	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-02-16 08:18:45	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	340	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	1.831	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.88 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	119	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	us2000d33r	Id of event.
Event Code	2000d33r	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000d33r,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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