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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Juli in Peru


Earthquake location -16.5149S, -69.7848WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 48 kilometers (30 miles) from Juli in Peru on Friday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000cebf. Id of event: us1000cebf. Exact location of event, longitude -69.7848 West, latitude -16.5149 South, depth = 190.5 km. The temblor was picked up at 09:05:03 / 9:05 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/02/18 / 2018-02-02 14:05:03 / February 2, 2018 @ 2:05 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 190.5 km (118 miles).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yunguyo, Desaguadero, Puno (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Puno (c. 116 600 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Yunguyo (c. 16 100 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Ilave (c. 16 000 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Juli (c. 7 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Desaguadero (c. 5 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 48 km SW of Juli, Peru. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -69.7848° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -16.5149° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 190.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 48km SW of Juli, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-02-02 14:05:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-17 07:58:29 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 259 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 1.603 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.09 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 109 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 us1000cebf Id of event.
Event Code 1000cebf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000cebf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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