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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Chaupimarca in Peru


Earthquake location -10.4761S, -76.6295WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Chaupimarca in Peru. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -76.6295 West, latitude -10.4761 South, depth = 104.57 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70009qdp. Id of event: us70009qdp. The temblor was detected at 23:41:26 / 11:41 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/05/20 / 2020-05-26 04:41:26 / May 26, 2020 @ 4:41 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 104.57 km (65 miles).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Carhuamayo, Huánuco, Ambo (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Huánuco (c. 148 000 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Cerro de Pasco (c. 78 900 pop), 20 km (12 miles) from Chaupimarca (c. 28 700 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Yanacancha (c. 23 200 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Carhuamayo (c. 9 100 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Ambo (c. 6 900 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 11 km WSW of Chaupimarca, Peru.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -76.6295° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -10.4761° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 104.57 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km WSW of Chaupimarca, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-05-26 04:41:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-26 23:25:51 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 4.739 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.33 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 143 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 us70009qdp Id of event.
Event Code 70009qdp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70009qdp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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