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Light earthquake: M4.9 quake has struck near offshore Coquimbo, Chile

Posted by admin on September 17, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location -31.7775S, -72.0219WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) strikes offshore Coquimbo, Chile kilometers (0 miles) from offshore Coquimbo, Chile on Thursday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/09/15 / 2015-09-17 18:26:40 / September 17, 2015 @ 6:26 pm. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:26:40 / 6:26 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 4.45 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us20003kqq. Ids that are associated to the event: us20003kqq. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -72.0219 West, latitude -31.7775 South, depth = 4.45 km.

Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Salamanca, Illapel (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Salamanca (c. 13 300 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-three, in the last 10 days fourty-three, in the past 30 days fourty-three and in the last 365 days fifty-nine 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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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: offshore Coquimbo, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -72.0219° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -31.7775° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.45 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place offshore Coquimbo, 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 18:26:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-17 18:53:44 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 1.149 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.88 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 72 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 us20003kqq Id of event.
Event Code 20003kqq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003kqq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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