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Moderate earthquake, 5.5 mag has occurred near Illapel in Chile


Earthquake location -31.4391S, -71.9873WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) strikes 80 kilometers (50 miles) from Illapel in Chile on Wednesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us20003kgi. Event ids that are associated: us20003kgi. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 17.86 km (11 miles). The temblor was picked up at 23:26:39 / 11:26 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/09/15 / 2015-09-17 04:26:39 / September 17, 2015 @ 4:26 am. Exact location of earthquake, -71.9873° West, -31.4391° South, depth 17.86 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Salamanca, Illapel. The epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop), 104 km (65 miles) from Salamanca (c. 13 300 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty, in the last 10 days twenty, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days thirty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 80 km WNW of Illapel, Chile. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.9873° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -31.4391° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 17.86 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 80km WNW 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 04:26:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-17 04:51:07 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 4.08 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 465 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 0.82 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.07 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 76 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 us20003kgi Id of event.
Event Code 20003kgi An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003kgi, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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