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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Coracora in Peru


Earthquake location -14.8893S, -73.7547WA 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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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -73.7547° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -14.8893° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 73.74 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km N of Coracora, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-07-29 03:43:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-29 03:56:59 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 326 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 4.164 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.05 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 133 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 us2000ggg3 Id of event.
Event Code 2000ggg3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000ggg3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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