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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag was detected near Iquique in Chile


Earthquake location -20.0463S, -70.8968WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 81 kilometers (50 miles) from Iquique in Chile. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:03:33 / 5:03 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 15/09/15 / 2015-09-15 22:03:33 / September 15, 2015 @ 10:03 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us20003ju2. Event ids that are associated: us20003ju2. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -70.8968 West, latitude -20.0463 South, depth = 16.3 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 16.3 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Iquique. Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 81 km (51 miles) from Iquique (c. 227 500 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 81 km WNW of Iquique, Chile. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -70.8968° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -20.0463° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16.3 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 81km WNW of Iquique, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-09-15 22:03:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-15 22:22:04 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 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 369 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 0.753 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.05 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 140 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 us20003ju2 Id of event.
Event Code 20003ju2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003ju2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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