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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 74 km WSW of Santiago de Cao, Peru


Earthquake location -8.3141S, -79.8124WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 74 kilometers (46 miles) from Santiago de Cao in Peru on Saturday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -79.8124 West, latitude -8.3141 South, depth = 54.865 km. The temblor was detected at 10:16:52 / 10:16 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 54.865 km (34 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 07/12/24 / 2024-12-07 10:16:52 / December 7, 2024 @ 10:16 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us7000nwuz. Event ids that are associated: us7000nwuz.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Salaverry, Chicama, Moche. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 89 km (55 miles) from Trujillo (c. 747 500 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Chocope (c. 32 400 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Moche (c. 22 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Santiago de Cao (c. 22 000 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Paiján (c. 21 100 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Chicama (c. 14 900 pop), 93 km (57 miles) from Salaverry (c. 10 100 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 74 km WSW of Santiago de Cao, Peru. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -79.8124° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.3141° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 54.865 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 74 km WSW of Santiago de Cao, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-12-07 10:16:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-07 12:11:09 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 4.677 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 174 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 us7000nwuz Id of event.
Event Code 7000nwuz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nwuz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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