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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Mariposa in Peru

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Mariposa in Peru. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:05:38 / 12:05 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -74.9008° West, -11.3039° South, depth 113.266 km. Unique identifier: us7000nue0. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000nue0. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/11/24 / 2024-11-27 00:05:38 / November 27, 2024 @ 12:05 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 113.266 km (70 miles).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Oxapampa, Chupaca, Sicaya. Earthquake epicenter was 91 km (56 miles) from Huancayo (c. 376 700 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Tarma (c. 51 400 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Jauja (c. 21 100 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Satipo (c. 15 500 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from San Ramón (c. 14 700 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Oxapampa (c. 12 000 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Concepción (c. 11 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 one and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-74.9008° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-11.3039° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	113.266 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	19 km NW of Mariposa, Peru	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-11-27 00:05:38	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-11-27 02:18:47	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	326	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	59	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.02	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.52 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	72	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	us7000nue0	Id of event.
Event Code	7000nue0	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000nue0,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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