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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 39 km SSE of Cayarani, Peru


Earthquake location -14.9999S, -71.867WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Cayarani in Peru. Exact location of event, longitude -71.867 West, latitude -14.9999 South, depth = 126.559 km. Unique identifier: us7000np5a. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000np5a. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 126.559 km (79 miles). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:21:48 / 5:21 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 31/10/24 / 2024-10-31 05:21:48 / October 31, 2024 @ 5:21 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

The epicenter was 59 km (37 miles) from Orcopampa (c. 5 600 pop). Close country/countries, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Orcopampa.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 39 km SSE of Cayarani, Peru.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.867° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -14.9999° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 126.559 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 39 km SSE of Cayarani, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-10-31 05:21:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-10-31 06:34:24 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 26 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.447 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 152 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 us7000np5a Id of event.
Event Code 7000np5a An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000np5a, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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