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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Illapel in Chile


Earthquake location -31.7974S, -71.5881WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Illapel in Chile on Saturday. Id of earthquake: us20003lr3. Event ids that are associated: us20003lr3. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/09/15 / 2015-09-19 05:55:26 / September 19, 2015 @ 5:55 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 38.42 km (24 miles). Exact location of event, depth 38.42 km, -71.5881° West, -31.7974° South. The temblor was reported at 02:55:26 / 2:55 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was La Ligua, Salamanca, Illapel (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Event epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from La Ligua (c. 24 900 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Salamanca (c. 13 300 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been nineteen, in the last 10 days eighty-five, in the past 30 days eighty-five and in the last 365 days one hundred and four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 44 km WSW of Illapel, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.5881° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -31.7974° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 38.42 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 44km 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 2015-09-19 05:55:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-19 06:13:14 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -180 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 312 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 1.12 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.51 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 us20003lr3 Id of event.
Event Code 20003lr3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003lr3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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