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Light earthquake: M4.7 quake has struck near Moyobamba in Peru

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Moyobamba in Peru on Sunday. Id of earthquake: us6000c5j3. Event ids that are associated: us6000c5j3. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:21:13 / 8:21 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35.66 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 04/10/20 / 2020-10-04 20:21:13 / October 4, 2020 @ 8:21 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -76.7288° West, -5.9836° South, depth 35.66 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Chazuta, San José de Sisa, Yurimaguas (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 27 km (17 miles) from Moyobamba (c. 44 300 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Yurimaguas (c. 41 800 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Rioja (c. 25 100 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Tabalosos (c. 14 700 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Lamas (c. 13 700 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Soritor (c. 10 900 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from San José de Sisa (c. 9 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop).

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. 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 eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. 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: 27 km ENE of Moyobamba, Peru.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-76.7288° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-5.9836° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	35.66 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	27 km ENE of Moyobamba, Peru	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-10-04 20:21:13	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-10-04 20:57:28	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.8	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	340	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	4.355	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.56 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	139	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	us6000c5j3	Id of event.
Event Code	6000c5j3	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000c5j3,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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