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

Posted by admin on September 19, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location -32.2943S, -72.0544WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 79 kilometers (49 miles) from La Ligua in Chile. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 22.04 km (14 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/09/15 / 2015-09-19 13:58:26 / September 19, 2015 @ 1:58 pm. The temblor was picked up at 08:58:26 / 8:58 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -72.0544° West, latitude -32.2943° South, depth = 22.04 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us20003lve. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20003lve.

The epicenter was 94 km (58 miles) from Viña del Mar (c. 294 600 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Valparaíso (c. 282 400 pop), 96 km (59 miles) from Hacienda La Calera (c. 49 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from La Ligua (c. 24 900 pop). Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hacienda La Calera, Viña del Mar, Valparaíso (min 5000 pop).

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

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 79 km WNW of La Ligua, Chile. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -72.0544° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -32.2943° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 22.04 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 79km WNW of La Ligua, 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 13:58:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-19 17:11:40 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 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 0.807 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 193 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us20003lve Id of event.
Event Code 20003lve An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003lve, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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