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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 11 km WSW of Villa Rica, Peru


Earthquake location -10.7606S, -75.3714WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Villa Rica in Peru. All ids that are associated to the event: us700057ii. Unique identifier: us700057ii. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude -75.3714° West, latitude -10.7606° South, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 06:32:26 / 6:32 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/08/19 / 2019-08-23 11:32:26 / August 23, 2019 @ 11:32 am.

Epicenter of the event was 81 km (50 miles) from Tarma (c. 51 400 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Junín (c. 15 300 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from San Ramón (c. 14 700 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Oxapampa (c. 12 000 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Carhuamayo (c. 9 100 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Villa Rica (c. 7 400 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Perené (c. 6 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tarma, Junín, San Pedro de Cajas (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop).

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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 11 km WSW of Villa Rica, Peru. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -75.3714° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -10.7606° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km WSW of Villa Rica, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-08-23 11:32:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-23 13:38:49 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 312 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 1.888 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.06 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 97 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 us700057ii Id of event.
Event Code 700057ii An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700057ii, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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