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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Sitabamba in Peru

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Sitabamba in Peru on Thursday. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000nde8. Unique identifier: us7000nde8. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 57.734 km (36 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:27:20 / 11:27 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -77.8491° West, latitude -8.0941° South, depth = 57.734 km. 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: 12/09/24 / 2024-09-12 23:27:20 / September 12, 2024 @ 11:27 pm.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Otuzco, Cajabamba, Quiruvilca (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 41 km (25 miles) from Huamachuco (c. 21 800 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Cajabamba (c. 13 500 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Otuzco (c. 10 100 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Quiruvilca (c. 9 200 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Santiago de Chuco (c. 6 800 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop).

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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-77.8491° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-8.0941° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	57.734 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	15 km WSW of Sitabamba, Peru	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-09-12 23:27:20	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-09-13 03:31:51	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	39	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	3.994	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.51 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	132	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	us7000nde8	Id of event.
Event Code	7000nde8	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000nde8,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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