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Light earthquake 4.7 mag, 16 km ESE of Calana, Peru


Earthquake location -18.011S, -70.048WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Calana in Peru. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/03/25 / 2025-03-09 08:06:32 / March 9, 2025 @ 8:06 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 110.232 km (68 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -70.048 West, latitude -18.011 South, depth = 110.232 km. Id of earthquake: us6000pxry. Event ids that are associated: us6000pxry. The temblor was detected at 08:06:32 / 8:06 am (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 Ilabaya, Arica, Tacna (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop), Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 22 km (14 miles) from Tacna (c. 280 100 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Arica (c. 186 000 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Ilabaya (c. 9 500 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourty-two 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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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 16 km ESE of Calana, Peru.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -70.048° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -18.011° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 110.232 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16 km ESE of Calana, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-03-09 08:06:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-03-09 08:35:27 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 340 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 41 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.454 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.98 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 123 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 us6000pxry Id of event.
Event Code 6000pxry An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pxry, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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