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Light earthquake: M4.9 quake has struck near Illapel in Chile


Earthquake location -31.6298S, -71.9087WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 70 kilometers (43 miles) from Illapel in Chile. Global time and date of event 17/09/15 / 2015-09-17 06:38:56 / September 17, 2015 @ 6:38 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -71.9087 West, latitude -31.6298 South, depth = 25.02 km. Unique identifier: us20003ki9. Ids that are associated to the event: us20003ki9. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 25.02 km (16 miles). The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:38:56 / 1:38 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Salamanca, Illapel (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 70 km (43 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Salamanca (c. 13 300 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-five, in the last 10 days thirty-five, in the past 30 days thirty-five and in the last 365 days fifty 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.

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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: 70 km W of Illapel, Chile.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.9087° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -31.6298° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 25.02 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 70km 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 06:38:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-17 08:22:55 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 0.981 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.65 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 143 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 us20003ki9 Id of event.
Event Code 20003ki9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003ki9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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