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


Earthquake location -17.3604S, -69.6527WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Chuquitira in Peru on Sunday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us7000mz4u. Event ids that are associated: us7000mz4u. The temblor was reported at 01:13:23 / 1:13 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -69.6527° West, latitude -17.3604° South, depth = 179.956 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 14/07/24 / 2024-07-14 01:13:23 / July 14, 2024 @ 1:13 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 179.956 km (112 miles).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ilabaya. Nearby country/countries, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) from Ilabaya (c. 9 500 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 42 km E of Chuquitira, 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 -69.6527° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.3604° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 179.956 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 42 km E of Chuquitira, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-07-14 01:13:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-07-14 01:40:07 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 18 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.281 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.49 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 193 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 us7000mz4u Id of event.
Event Code 7000mz4u An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000mz4u, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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