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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag strikes near Tarata in Peru


Earthquake location -17.5818S, -69.5101WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Tarata in Peru. Id of earthquake: us70005c9b. Event ids that are associated: us70005c9b. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude -69.5101° West, latitude -17.5818° South, depth = 173.83 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 173.83 km (108 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 05/09/19 / 2019-09-05 11:09:01 / September 5, 2019 @ 11:09 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 07:09:01 / 7:09 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tacna. Event epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) from Tacna (c. 280 100 pop).

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 two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 56 km ESE of Tarata, Peru.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -69.5101° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.5818° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 173.83 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 56km ESE of Tarata, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-09-05 11:09:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-06 13:45:26 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 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 0.029 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 82 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 us70005c9b Id of event.
Event Code 70005c9b An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005c9b, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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