Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near San Antonio in Peru

A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from San Antonio in Peru. Id of earthquake: us7000ngjb. Event ids that are associated: us7000ngjb. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 26/09/24 / 2024-09-26 12:05:15 / September 26, 2024 @ 12:05 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -70.8303° West, -17.3779° South. The temblor was detected at 12:05:15 / 12:05 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 23 km (14 miles) from Moquegua (c. 54 500 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Ilo (c. 53 500 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Ilabaya (c. 9 500 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Pacocha (c. 7 600 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Torata (c. 7 100 pop). Close country/countries, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ilo, Pacocha, Ilabaya (min 5000 pop).

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

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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: 20 km SSE of San Antonio, Peru.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-70.8303° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-17.3779° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	20 km SSE of San Antonio, Peru	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-09-26 12:05:15	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-10-22 08:26:16	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	284	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	26	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.092	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.29 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	145	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	us7000ngjb	Id of event.
Event Code	7000ngjb	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000ngjb,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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