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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag has occurred near Tingo Maria in Peru


Earthquake location -8.8838S, -76.2029WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was reported 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Tingo Maria in Peru on Tuesday. Exact time and date of earthquake 03/09/19 / 2019-09-03 10:10:14 / September 3, 2019 @ 10:10 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -76.2029 West, latitude -8.8838 South, depth = 120.77 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70005ben. Id of event: us70005ben. The temblor was detected at 05:10:14 / 5:10 am (local time epicenter). 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 120.77 km (75 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tocache, Uchiza, Tingo María (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 51 km (32 miles) from Tingo María (c. 53 200 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Tocache (c. 29 000 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Uchiza (c. 17 700 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 two and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 49 km NNW of Tingo Maria, Peru. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -76.2029° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.8838° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 120.77 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 49km NNW of Tingo Maria, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-09-03 10:10:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-03 11:41:15 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 354 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 3.147 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.88 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 108 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 us70005ben Id of event.
Event Code 70005ben An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005ben, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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