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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Illapel in Chile


Earthquake location -31.7546S, -72.0164WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes 81 kilometers (50 miles) from Illapel in Chile on Thursday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 18/09/15 / 2015-09-18 03:32:18 / September 18, 2015 @ 3:32 am. The temblor was picked up at 22:32:18 / 10:32 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us20003l2z. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20003l2z. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 15.12 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -72.0164 West, latitude -31.7546 South, depth = 15.12 km.

Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Salamanca (c. 13 300 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Salamanca, Illapel (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-two, in the last 10 days sixty-one, in the past 30 days sixty-one and in the last 365 days seventy-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 81 km W of Illapel, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -72.0164° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -31.7546° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15.12 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 81km 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 2015-09-18 03:32:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-18 03:50:12 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 385 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 1.125 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 80 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 us20003l2z Id of event.
Event Code 20003l2z An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003l2z, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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