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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Paracas in Peru

Posted by admin on December 11, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location -13.8304S, -76.7401WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 51 kilometers (32 miles) from Paracas in Peru on Thursday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60006pe9. Id of event: us60006pe9. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 29/11/19 / 2019-11-29 04:29:21 / November 29, 2019 @ 4:29 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 23:29:21 / 11:29 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -76.7401 West, latitude -13.8304 South, depth = 10 km.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Vicente de Cañete, Chincha Alta, San Clemente (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 81 km (50 miles) from Chincha Alta (c. 153 100 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Pisco (c. 61 900 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from San Vicente de Cañete (c. 25 500 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from San Clemente (c. 15 800 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Villa Tupac Amaru (c. 11 200 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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: 51 km W of Paracas, Peru. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -76.7401° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -13.8304° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 51km W of Paracas, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-11-29 04:29:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-10 23:50:16 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 298 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 1.834 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.37 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 164 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 us60006pe9 Id of event.
Event Code 60006pe9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60006pe9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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