Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 9 km NW of Atuncolla, Peru

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Atuncolla in Peru. The epicenter was at a depth of 225.926 km (140 miles). Exact location, longitude -70.2045° West, latitude -15.6165° South, depth = 225.926 km. Global time and date of event 15/09/24 / 2024-09-15 12:57:20 / September 15, 2024 @ 12:57 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 12:57:20 / 12:57 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us7000ne1s. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000ne1s. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 15 km (9 miles) from Juliaca (c. 245 700 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Puno (c. 116 600 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Ayaviri (c. 19 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Ilave (c. 16 000 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Azángaro (c. 13 300 pop), 9 km (6 miles) from Atuncolla (c. 12 700 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Putina (c. 8 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ayaviri, Putina, Azángaro.

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 one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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: 9 km NW of Atuncolla, Peru.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-70.2045° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-15.6165° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	225.926 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9 km NW of Atuncolla, Peru	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-09-15 12:57:20	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-09-29 09:05:30	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	29	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.081	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.25 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	147	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	us7000ne1s	Id of event.
Event Code	7000ne1s	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000ne1s,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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