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Minor earthquake, 3.6 mag was detected near Copiapo in Chile

Posted by admin on July 5, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location -26.916S, -70.79WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) was reported 67 kilometers (42 miles) from Copiapo in Chile on Sunday. The temblor was picked up at 11:07:49 / 11:07 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 05/07/15 / 2015-07-05 15:07:49 / July 5, 2015 @ 3:07 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -70.79° West, latitude -26.916° South, depth = 39 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 39 km (24 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us10002nj2. Event ids that are associated: us10002nj2.

Epicenter of the event was 68 km (42 miles) from Copiapó (c. 129 300 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Copiapó (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 67 km NW of Copiapo, Chile. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -70.79° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -26.916° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 39 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 67km NW of Copiapo, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-05 15:07:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-05 17:09:58 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 199 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.62 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10002nj2 Id of event.
Event Code 10002nj2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10002nj2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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