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Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Pacocha in Peru


Earthquake location -17.3368S, -71.2684WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Pacocha in Peru. Exact location of earthquake, -71.2684° West, -17.3368° South, depth 77.94 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 13/04/18 / 2018-04-13 15:11:56 / April 13, 2018 @ 3:11 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:11:56 / 10:11 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us2000dzqv. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000dzqv. 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 77.94 km (48 miles).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mollendo, Ilabaya, Cocachacra. The epicenter was 39 km (24 miles) from Moquegua (c. 54 500 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Ilo (c. 53 500 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Mollendo (c. 29 000 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Ilabaya (c. 9 500 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Cocachacra (c. 8 800 pop), 28 km (18 miles) from Pacocha (c. 7 600 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 four and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city 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: 28 km NNE of Pacocha, Peru.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.2684° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.3368° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 77.94 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28km NNE of Pacocha, 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 15:11:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-12 20:04:28 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 1.553 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.84 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 213 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 us2000dzqv Id of event.
Event Code 2000dzqv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000dzqv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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