Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Changuillo in Peru

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Changuillo in Peru. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/07/24 / 2024-07-27 20:13:51 / July 27, 2024 @ 8:13 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000njmy. Id of event: us6000njmy. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 20:13:51 / 8:13 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -75.3532 West, latitude -14.6185 South, depth = 63.503 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 63.503 km (39 miles).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Subtanjalla, San Juan Bautista, Ica. Nearby country/countries, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 73 km (46 miles) from Ica (c. 246 800 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Nazca (c. 23 600 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Minas de Marcona (c. 15 500 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Santiago (c. 10 400 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Subtanjalla (c. 9 100 pop), 68 km (43 miles) from Los Aquijes (c. 7 800 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 14 km WNW of Changuillo, Peru.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-75.3532° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-14.6185° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	63.503 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	14 km WNW of Changuillo, Peru	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-07-27 20:13:51	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-13 23:21:56	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	271	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	23	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.99	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.6 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	100	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	us6000njmy	Id of event.
Event Code	6000njmy	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000njmy,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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