Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 208 km WSW of Puerto Santa, Peru

A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 208 km WSW of Puerto Santa, Peru (129 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us6000bhne. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000bhne. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 31.87 km (20 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 14/08/20 / 2020-08-14 15:18:04 / August 14, 2020 @ 3:18 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -80.4997° West, -9.3897° South, depth 31.87 km. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:18:04 / 3:18 pm (local time epicenter).

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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 208 km WSW of Puerto Santa, Peru. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-80.4997° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-9.3897° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	31.87 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	208 km WSW of Puerto Santa, Peru	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-08-14 15:18:04	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-08-23 17:34:51	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	312	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	4.425	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.91 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	156	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	us6000bhne	Id of event.
Event Code	6000bhne	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000bhne,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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