Strong earthquake, 6.1 mag was detected near Atiquipa in Peru

A earthquake magnitude 6.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Atiquipa in Peru. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -74.5791 West, latitude -16.1219 South, depth = 19.32 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 19.32 km (12 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000n948. Unique identifier: us6000n948. The temblor was picked up at 07:05:33 / 7:05 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/06/24 / 2024-06-29 07:05:33 / June 29, 2024 @ 7:05 am.

Event epicenter was 116 km (72 miles) from Minas de Marcona (c. 15 500 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Minas de Marcona. Close country/countries, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 42 km SSW of Atiquipa, Peru.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	6.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-74.5791° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-16.1219° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	19.32 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	42 km SSW of Atiquipa, Peru	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-06-29 07:05:33	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-06-29 07:28:14	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	5.893	The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level	green	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	572	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	98	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	4.625	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.04 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	89	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mww	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us6000n948	Id of event.
Event Code	6000n948	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000n948,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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