Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Mollendo in Peru

A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Mollendo in Peru. Global time and date of event 17/07/20 / 2020-07-17 05:04:02 / July 17, 2020 @ 5:04 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -71.9075 West, latitude -16.7948 South, depth = 120.83 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 120.83 km (75 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us7000aq5h. Event ids that are associated: us7000aq5h. The temblor was detected at 05:04:02 / 5:04 am (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 59 km (37 miles) from Arequipa (c. 841 100 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Mollendo (c. 29 000 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from Camaná (c. 16 400 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Cocachacra (c. 8 800 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Punta de Bombón (c. 6 300 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Lluta (c. 6 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Camaná, Lluta, Yura (min 5000 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 twelve 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 earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 27 km NNE of Mollendo, Peru. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-71.9075° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-16.7948° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	120.83 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	27 km NNE of Mollendo, Peru	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-07-17 05:04:02	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-07-17 05:21:24	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	271	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	2.164	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.5 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	144	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	us7000aq5h	Id of event.
Event Code	7000aq5h	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000aq5h,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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