A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Atiquipa in Peru. The temblor was detected at 07:05:24 / 7:05 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 28/06/24 / 2024-06-28 07:05:24 / June 28, 2024 @ 7:05 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000n8u2. Id of event: us6000n8u2. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -74.792 West, latitude -15.9713 South, depth = 20.737 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 20.737 km (13 miles).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Minas de Marcona. Epicenter of the earthquake was 91 km (57 miles) from Minas de Marcona (c. 15 500 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 49 km WSW of Atiquipa, Peru.
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