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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Campoverde in Peru


Earthquake location -8.9151S, -75.03WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 54 kilometers (34 miles) from Campoverde in Peru. Exact location of event, depth 35 km, -75.03° West, -8.9151° South. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/09/19 / 2019-09-27 04:32:43 / September 27, 2019 @ 4:32 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us70005m7b. Unique identifier: us70005m7b. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 23:32:43 / 11:32 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pucallpa, Campoverde (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Pucallpa (c. 310 800 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Campoverde (c. 8 900 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 eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 54 km SSW of Campoverde, Peru. This information 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 -75.03° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.9151° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 54km SSW 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 2019-09-27 04:32:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-27 05:05:15 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 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 3.535 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.54 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 114 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 us70005m7b Id of event.
Event Code 70005m7b An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005m7b, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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