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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Contamana in Peru

Posted by admin on April 20, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -7.2132S, -74.4526WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 63 kilometers (39 miles) from Contamana in Peru on Friday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 171.63 km (107 miles). Unique identifier: us2000dzmq. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000dzmq. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 13/04/18 / 2018-04-13 13:30:36 / April 13, 2018 @ 1:30 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -74.4526 West, latitude -7.2132 South, depth = 171.63 km. The temblor was reported at 08:30:36 / 8:30 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Contamana. Country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop). The epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from Contamana (c. 13 900 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 was reported nearby.

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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: 63 km ENE of Contamana, Peru. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -74.4526° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -7.2132° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 171.63 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 63km ENE of Contamana, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-04-13 13:30:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-20 06:38:13 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 312 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 1.807 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.89 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 97 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 us2000dzmq Id of event.
Event Code 2000dzmq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000dzmq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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