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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Puquio in Peru

Posted by admin on July 1, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -15.12S, -74.2149WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 47 kilometers (29 miles) from Puquio in Peru on Saturday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us2000fsrx. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000fsrx. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 60.74 km (38 miles). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:24:56 / 11:24 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -74.2149° West, latitude -15.12° South, depth = 60.74 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 01/07/18 / 2018-07-01 04:24:56 / July 1, 2018 @ 4:24 am UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Nazca, Puquio, Tambo. The epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from Nazca (c. 23 600 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Puquio (c. 10 500 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Coracora (c. 7 400 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Tambo (c. 5 000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 47 km S of Puquio, Peru. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -74.2149° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -15.12° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 60.74 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 47km S of Puquio, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-07-01 04:24:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-01 04:54:19 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 284 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 4.027 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.65 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 145 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 us2000fsrx Id of event.
Event Code 2000fsrx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000fsrx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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