Light earthquake, 4.9 mag has occurred near Oxapampa in Peru

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 53 kilometers (33 miles) from Oxapampa in Peru. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/07/20 / 2020-07-29 09:36:31 / July 29, 2020 @ 9:36 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -74.9872 West, latitude -10.3158 South, depth = 47.58 km. The temblor was reported at 09:36:31 / 9:36 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us6000b608. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000b608. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 47.58 km (30 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Ramón, Perené, Villa Rica (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 99 km (61 miles) from San Ramón (c. 14 700 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Oxapampa (c. 12 000 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Villa Rica (c. 7 400 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Perené (c. 6 800 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 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 six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 53 km ENE of Oxapampa, Peru. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-74.9872° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-10.3158° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	47.58 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	53 km ENE of Oxapampa, Peru	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-07-29 09:36:31	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-07-29 09:53:52	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.3	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	370	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	2.464	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.04 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	101	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	us6000b608	Id of event.
Event Code	6000b608	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000b608,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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