A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Atico in Peru. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/03/25 / 2025-03-16 02:20:52 / March 16, 2025 @ 2:20 am. Event id: us6000pz40. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000pz40. The temblor was detected at 02:20:52 / 2:20 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 92.386 km (57 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -73.4432 West, latitude -16.0921 South, depth = 92.386 km.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Camaná. The epicenter was 98 km (61 miles) from Camaná (c. 16 400 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop).
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 two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days nineteen 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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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 23 km NE of Atico, Peru.
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