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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Chancay in Peru

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 43 kilometers (27 miles) from Chancay in Peru. Exact location of event, depth 35 km, -77.5655° West, -11.829° South. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us600062sa. Ids that are associated to the event: us600062sa. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/10/19 / 2019-10-25 02:35:57 / October 25, 2019 @ 2:35 am. The temblor was detected at 21:35:57 / 9:35 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the event was 63 km (39 miles) from Lima (c. 7 737 000 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Callao (c. 813 300 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Surco (c. 251 600 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Chosica (c. 88 600 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from San Isidro (c. 68 300 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Huaral (c. 62 200 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Asentamiento Humano Nicolas de Pierola, Chosica, Végueta.

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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 43 km SW of Chancay, Peru.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-77.5655° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-11.829° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	35 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	43km SW of Chancay, Peru	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-10-25 02:35:57	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-10-25 03:17:22	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	9	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.4	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	301	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	0.725	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.03 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	197	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	us600062sa	Id of event.
Event Code	600062sa	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us600062sa,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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