Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Santiago in Peru

A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Santiago in Peru on Thursday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 59.61 km (37 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 59.61 km, -75.7021° West, -14.2452° South. The temblor was picked up at 13:04:18 / 1:04 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 07/05/20 / 2020-05-07 18:04:18 / May 7, 2020 @ 6:04 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us70009g1v. Ids that are associated to the event: us70009g1v.

Close country/countries, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 20 km (12 miles) from Ica (c. 246 800 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Pisco (c. 61 900 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from San Clemente (c. 15 800 pop), 76 km (48 miles) from Villa Tupac Amaru (c. 11 200 pop), 6 km (4 miles) from Santiago (c. 10 400 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Subtanjalla (c. 9 100 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pisco, San Clemente, Villa Tupac Amaru (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 6 km SSE of Santiago, Peru.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-75.7021° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-14.2452° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	59.61 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6km SSE of Santiago, Peru	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-05-07 18:04:18	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-05-18 17:57:20	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	284	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	2.503	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.66 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	148	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	us70009g1v	Id of event.
Event Code	70009g1v	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70009g1v,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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