Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Taquile in Peru

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Taquile in Peru. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -69.8312 West, latitude -15.7581 South, depth = 249.32 km. Global time and date of event 12/10/19 / 2019-10-12 23:17:59 / October 12, 2019 @ 11:17 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 18:17:59 / 6:17 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 249.32 km (155 miles). Unique identifier: us70005ts7. Ids that are associated to the event: us70005ts7.

Epicenter of the event was 43 km (27 miles) from Juliaca (c. 245 700 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Puno (c. 116 600 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Ilave (c. 16 000 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Atuncolla (c. 12 700 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Putina (c. 8 100 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Juli (c. 7 300 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Juli, Putina, Juliaca. 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 eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 15 km W of Taquile, Peru.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-69.8312° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-15.7581° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	249.32 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	15km W of Taquile, Peru	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-10-12 23:17:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-10-13 00:07:07	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	271	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	1.718	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.07 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	139	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	us70005ts7	Id of event.
Event Code	70005ts7	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70005ts7,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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