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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 39 km S of Paracas, Peru


Earthquake location -14.2219S, -76.2358WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Paracas in Peru. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 24.268 km (15 miles). Event id: us6000nf7g. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000nf7g. Exact location of earthquake, -76.2358° West, -14.2219° South, depth 24.268 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:40:20 / 10:40 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 24/07/24 / 2024-07-24 10:40:20 / July 24, 2024 @ 10:40 am.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop). Event epicenter was 57 km (36 miles) from Ica (c. 246 800 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Chincha Alta (c. 153 100 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Pisco (c. 61 900 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from San Clemente (c. 15 800 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Villa Tupac Amaru (c. 11 200 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Santiago (c. 10 400 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Chincha Alta, San Clemente, Los Aquijes.

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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. 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: 39 km S of Paracas, Peru.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -76.2358° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -14.2219° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 24.268 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 39 km S of Paracas, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-07-24 10:40:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-07-25 04:13:04 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 298 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 37 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.298 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.53 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 139 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 us6000nf7g Id of event.
Event Code 6000nf7g An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000nf7g, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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