A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Minas de Marcona in Peru. Exact time and date of earthquake 28/04/19 / 2019-04-28 12:46:16 / April 28, 2019 @ 12:46 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 38.11 km (24 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:46:16 / 7:46 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -75.1641 West, latitude -15.6616 South, depth = 38.11 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us70003ded. Unique identifier: us70003ded.
Earthquake epicenter was 50 km (31 miles) from Minas de Marcona (c. 15 500 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Minas de Marcona (min 5000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each 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 eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 50 km S of Minas de Marcona, Peru.
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