Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Pisco in Peru

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Pisco in Peru. Exact location of event, longitude -76.2794 West, latitude -13.5412 South, depth = 50.78 km. The temblor was detected at 21:28:19 / 9:28 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us1000hb3e. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000hb3e. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 07/10/18 / 2018-10-07 02:28:19 / October 7, 2018 @ 2:28 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 50.78 km (32 miles).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Los Aquijes, Ica, San Juan Bautista. Event epicenter was 83 km (52 miles) from Ica (c. 246 800 pop), 22 km (13 miles) from Chincha Alta (c. 153 100 pop), 20 km (13 miles) from Pisco (c. 61 900 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Imperial (c. 32 300 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Nuevo Imperial (c. 32 300 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from San Vicente de Cañete (c. 25 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 18 km NNW of Pisco, 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	-76.2794° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-13.5412° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	50.78 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	18km NNW of Pisco, Peru	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-10-07 02:28:19	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-10-12 23:45:35	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	1.639	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	156	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	us1000hb3e	Id of event.
Event Code	1000hb3e	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000hb3e,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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