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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag has occurred near Chilca in Peru

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was reported 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Chilca in Peru on Tuesday. The epicenter was at a depth of 50.824 km (32 miles). Exact location, longitude -76.823° West, latitude -12.5765° South, depth = 50.824 km. Event id: us6000neyl. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000neyl. The temblor was detected at 17:34:55 / 5:34 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/07/24 / 2024-07-23 17:34:55 / July 23, 2024 @ 5:34 pm.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Nuevo Imperial, Santa Eulalia, Imperial (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from Lima (c. 7 737 000 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Callao (c. 813 300 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Surco (c. 251 600 pop), 72 km (44 miles) from Chosica (c. 88 600 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from San Isidro (c. 68 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Imperial (c. 32 300 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Nuevo Imperial (c. 32 300 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. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 11 km WSW of Chilca, Peru.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-76.823° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-12.5765° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	50.824 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	11 km WSW of Chilca, Peru	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-07-23 17:34:55	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-07-23 18:50:26	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	354	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	104	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.586	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.63 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	97	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	us6000neyl	Id of event.
Event Code	6000neyl	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000neyl,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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