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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Illapel in Chile


Earthquake location -31.8467S, -72.1926WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was reported 100 kilometers (62 miles) from Illapel in Chile on Friday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 18/09/15 / 2015-09-18 07:49:15 / September 18, 2015 @ 7:49 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 13.06 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -72.1926 West, latitude -31.8467 South, depth = 13.06 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20003l4s. Id of event: us20003l4s. The temblor was picked up at 02:49:15 / 2:49 am (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 100 km (62 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Illapel. Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-nine, in the last 10 days fifty-nine, in the past 30 days fifty-nine and in the last 365 days seventy-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 100 km WSW of Illapel, Chile. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -72.1926° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -31.8467° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13.06 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 100km WSW 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 2015-09-18 07:49:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-18 08:04:26 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 340 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 1.263 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.29 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 73 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 us20003l4s Id of event.
Event Code 20003l4s An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003l4s, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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