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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Talara in Peru


Earthquake location -4.4413S, -81.9266WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 74 kilometers (46 miles) from Talara in Peru. Exact time and date of earthquake 07/05/24 / 2024-05-07 22:22:47 / May 7, 2024 @ 10:22 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:22:47 / 10:22 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -81.9266 West, latitude -4.4413 South, depth = 10 km. Id of earthquake: us6000mx3a. Event ids that are associated: us6000mx3a. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Event epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Talara (c. 99 100 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from El Alto (c. 9 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was El Alto, Talara (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 two and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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: 74 km WNW of Talara, Peru. This data 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 -81.9266° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -4.4413° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 74 km WNW of Talara, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-05-07 22:22:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-07 22:55:59 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 26 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 4.23 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.96 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 94 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 us6000mx3a Id of event.
Event Code 6000mx3a An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000mx3a, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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