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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Acari in Peru


Earthquake location -15.939S, -74.9688WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 67 kilometers (42 miles) from Acari in Peru on Sunday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -74.9688 West, latitude -15.939 South, depth = 51.2 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 51.2 km (32 miles). The temblor was reported at 13:11:42 / 1:11 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us1000cfqt. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000cfqt. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/02/18 / 2018-02-04 18:11:42 / February 4, 2018 @ 6:11 pm.

Close country/countries, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Minas de Marcona (c. 15 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Minas de Marcona (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days twenty-two 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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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 67 km SSW of Acari, Peru.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -74.9688° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -15.939° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 51.2 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 67km SSW of Acari, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-02-04 18:11:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-05 14:50:12 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 4.328 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 148 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 us1000cfqt Id of event.
Event Code 1000cfqt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000cfqt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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