A 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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