A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Coracora in Peru. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000ggg3. Unique identifier: us2000ggg3. Global time and date of event 29/07/18 / 2018-07-29 03:43:59 / July 29, 2018 @ 3:43 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 73.74 km (46 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -73.7547 West, latitude -14.8893 South, depth = 73.74 km. The temblor was reported at 22:43:59 / 10:43 pm (local time epicenter).
Close country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop). Event epicenter was 46 km (28 miles) from Puquio (c. 10 500 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Coracora (c. 7 400 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Tambo (c. 5 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Puquio, Tambo, Coracora.
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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. 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: 16 km N of Coracora, Peru.
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