Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Mazo Cruz in Peru

A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Mazo Cruz in Peru. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 22:17:13 / 10:17 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000pa6e. Unique identifier: us7000pa6e. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -69.8184 West, latitude -16.6771 South, depth = 174.109 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/01/25 / 2025-01-30 22:17:13 / January 30, 2025 @ 10:17 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 174.109 km (108 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Puno, Yunguyo, Desaguadero (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 95 km (59 miles) from Puno (c. 116 600 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Yunguyo (c. 16 100 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Ilave (c. 16 000 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Juli (c. 7 300 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Desaguadero (c. 5 300 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 13 km WNW of Mazo Cruz, Peru. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-69.8184° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-16.6771° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	174.109 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	13 km WNW of Mazo Cruz, Peru	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-01-30 22:17:13	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-01-31 01:54:17	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	55	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.665	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.04 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	121	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	us7000pa6e	Id of event.
Event Code	7000pa6e	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000pa6e,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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