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Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Palca in Peru


Earthquake location -17.9335S, -69.6966WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Palca in Peru. The temblor was picked up at 18:27:10 / 6:27 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -69.6966 West, latitude -17.9335 South, depth = 142.16 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000diz4. Unique identifier: us6000diz4. The epicenter was at a depth of 142.16 km (88 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/02/21 / 2021-02-19 18:27:10 / February 19, 2021 @ 6:27 pm.

Epicenter of the event was 60 km (37 miles) from Tacna (c. 280 100 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Arica (c. 186 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Arica, Tacna (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop), Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 32 km ESE of Palca, Peru. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -69.6966° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.9335° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 142.16 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 32 km ESE of Palca, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2021-02-19 18:27:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-02-19 19:42:16 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 259 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 0.399 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 157 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 us6000diz4 Id of event.
Event Code 6000diz4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000diz4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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