A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Pucallpa in Peru. The epicenter was at a depth of 151.14 km (94 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 27/09/19 / 2019-09-27 03:17:59 / September 27, 2019 @ 3:17 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 151.14 km, -74.2303° West, -8.2456° South. The temblor was detected at 22:17:59 / 10:17 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70005m6j. Id of event: us70005m6j.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Campoverde, Pucallpa (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 39 km (24 miles) from Pucallpa (c. 310 800 pop), 68 km (43 miles) from Campoverde (c. 8 900 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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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. 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: 38 km ENE of Pucallpa, Peru.
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