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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag was detected near Illapel in Chile


Earthquake location -31.5743S, -71.8334WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was reported 63 kilometers (39 miles) from Illapel in Chile on Thursday. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:04:46 / 12:04 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 12.68 km (8 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 17/09/15 / 2015-09-17 05:04:46 / September 17, 2015 @ 5:04 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us20003khg. Event ids that are associated: us20003khg. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude -71.8334° West, latitude -31.5743° South, depth = 12.68 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Salamanca, Illapel. Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 63 km (39 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Salamanca (c. 13 300 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-five, in the last 10 days twenty-five, in the past 30 days twenty-five and in the last 365 days fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 63 km W of Illapel, Chile. This information 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 -71.8334° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -31.5743° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.68 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 63km W of Illapel, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-09-17 05:04:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-17 05:22:29 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 0.913 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.22 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 78 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 us20003khg Id of event.
Event Code 20003khg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003khg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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