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Light earthquake: M4.8 quake has struck near Vilcanchos in Peru


Earthquake location -13.4574S, -74.7475WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Vilcanchos in Peru. Id of earthquake: us7000ndl4. Event ids that are associated: us7000ndl4. Exact location of event, depth 87.073 km, -74.7475° West, -13.4574° South. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/09/24 / 2024-09-13 15:15:10 / September 13, 2024 @ 3:15 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:15:10 / 3:15 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 87.073 km (54 miles).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Miguel, Huanta, Huancavelica. Earthquake epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) from Ayacucho (c. 140 000 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Huancavelica (c. 41 600 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Huanta (c. 18 600 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from San Miguel (c. 8 400 pop). 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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.

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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. 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: 28 km NW of Vilcanchos, Peru.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -74.7475° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -13.4574° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 87.073 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28 km NW of Vilcanchos, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-09-13 15:15:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-09-13 16:30:44 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 31 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.512 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 129 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 us7000ndl4 Id of event.
Event Code 7000ndl4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000ndl4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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