A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 75 kilometers (47 miles) from Minas de Marcona in Peru on Sunday. 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: us1000hi5p. Unique identifier: us1000hi5p. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 26.36 km (16 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 26.36 km, -75.7645° West, -14.9634° South. Global time and date of event 28/10/18 / 2018-10-28 06:23:52 / October 28, 2018 @ 6:23 am UTC/GMT. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:23:52 / 1:23 am (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Nazca, Santiago, Palpa. Event epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Nazca (c. 23 600 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Minas de Marcona (c. 15 500 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Santiago (c. 10 400 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Palpa (c. 5 900 pop). Nearby country/countries, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 eight 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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