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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag has occurred near Campoverde in Peru


Earthquake location -8.4901S, -74.9168WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Campoverde in Peru on Monday. Global time and date of event 27/08/19 / 2019-08-27 00:08:30 / August 27, 2019 @ 12:08 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 139.13 km (86 miles). The temblor was reported at 19:08:30 / 7:08 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us700058lm. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us700058lm. Exact location of earthquake, -74.9168° West, -8.4901° South, depth 139.13 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pucallpa, Campoverde. Epicenter of the event was 42 km (26 miles) from Pucallpa (c. 310 800 pop), 12 km (8 miles) from Campoverde (c. 8 900 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. 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 three and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 12 km W of Campoverde, Peru.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -74.9168° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.4901° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 139.13 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km W of Campoverde, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-08-27 00:08:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-27 00:37:17 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 340 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 2.316 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.48 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 110 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 us700058lm Id of event.
Event Code 700058lm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700058lm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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