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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near San Alejandro in Peru


Earthquake location -8.8889S, -75.616WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 44 kilometers (27 miles) from San Alejandro in Peru. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/05/24 / 2024-05-10 12:34:50 / May 10, 2024 @ 12:34 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 127.882 km (79 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -75.616 West, latitude -8.8889 South, depth = 127.882 km. The temblor was picked up at 12:34:50 / 12:34 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us6000mxqc. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000mxqc. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Event epicenter was 62 km (38 miles) from Tingo María (c. 53 200 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tingo María. Close country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 44 km W of San Alejandro, Peru. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -75.616° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.8889° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 127.882 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 44 km W of San Alejandro, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-05-10 12:34:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-17 15:39:14 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 60 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.257 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 76 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 us6000mxqc Id of event.
Event Code 6000mxqc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000mxqc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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