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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near Satipo in Peru

Posted by admin on January 14, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location -10.8774S, -74.7925WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Satipo in Peru on Sunday. Exact location, longitude -74.7925° West, latitude -10.8774° South, depth = 52.58 km. The temblor was picked up at 08:45:33 / 8:45 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 29/12/19 / 2019-12-29 13:45:33 / December 29, 2019 @ 1:45 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us70006znh. Event ids that are associated: us70006znh. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 52.58 km (33 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Oxapampa, San Ramón, Mazamari. Close country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 45 km (28 miles) from Satipo (c. 15 500 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from San Ramón (c. 14 700 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Oxapampa (c. 12 000 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Villa Rica (c. 7 400 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Perené (c. 6 800 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Mazamari (c. 6 800 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 44 km NNW of Satipo, Peru.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -74.7925° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -10.8774° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 52.58 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 44km NNW of Satipo, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-12-29 13:45:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-14 19:21:10 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 326 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 2.292 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.62 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 75 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 us70006znh Id of event.
Event Code 70006znh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006znh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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