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Light earthquake: M4.8 quake has struck near Tarata in Peru


Earthquake location -17.604S, -69.8347WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was reported 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Tarata in Peru on Monday. Global time and date of event 27/08/18 / 2018-08-27 21:46:18 / August 27, 2018 @ 9:46 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 122.72 km (76 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000giaa. Unique identifier: us1000giaa. Exact location of earthquake, -69.8347° West, -17.604° South, depth 122.72 km. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:46:18 / 4:46 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ilabaya, Tacna (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from Tacna (c. 280 100 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Ilabaya (c. 9 500 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 25 km SE of Tarata, Peru.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -69.8347° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.604° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 122.72 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 25km SE of Tarata, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-08-27 21:46:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-27 22:21:18 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 355 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 0.338 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 93 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 us1000giaa Id of event.
Event Code 1000giaa An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000giaa, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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