Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Palca in Peru

A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 77 kilometers (48 miles) from Palca in Peru on Wednesday. Exact time and date of earthquake 05/02/25 / 2025-02-05 14:11:19 / February 5, 2025 @ 2:11 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us7000pbk1. Event ids that are associated: us7000pbk1. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -69.4428 West, latitude -18.2737 South, depth = 135.172 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 135.172 km (84 miles). The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:11:19 / 2:11 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arica, Tacna (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 90 km (56 miles) from Tacna (c. 280 100 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Arica (c. 186 000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop), Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days thirty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 77 km SE of Palca, Peru. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-69.4428° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-18.2737° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	135.172 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	77 km SE of Palca, Peru	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-02-05 14:11:19	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-02-09 18:35:03	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	271	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	35	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.859	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.66 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	68	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	us7000pbk1	Id of event.
Event Code	7000pbk1	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000pbk1,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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