Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Tacna in Peru

A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Tacna in Peru. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/11/18 / 2018-11-02 14:06:53 / November 2, 2018 @ 2:06 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 101.65 km (63 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us2000i5we. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000i5we. The temblor was picked up at 09:06:53 / 9:06 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -70.0731 West, latitude -18.2241 South, depth = 101.65 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Arica, Tacna. The epicenter was 30 km (19 miles) from Tacna (c. 280 100 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Arica (c. 186 000 pop). Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop), Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 30 km SE of Tacna, Peru.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-70.0731° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-18.2241° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	101.65 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	30km SE of Tacna, Peru	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-11-02 14:06:53	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-11-10 06:46:09	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	271	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	0.294	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	145	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	us2000i5we	Id of event.
Event Code	2000i5we	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000i5we,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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