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Light earthquake 4.7 mag, 92 km WSW of Illapel, Chile


Earthquake location -31.8328S, -72.1141WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was reported 92 kilometers (57 miles) from Illapel in Chile on Monday. The temblor was detected at 15:24:32 / 3:24 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 0 km, -72.1141° West, -31.8328° South. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 0 km (0 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 21/09/15 / 2015-09-21 20:24:32 / September 21, 2015 @ 8:24 pm. 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: us20003mjy. Id of event: us20003mjy.

Event epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Illapel. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twelve, in the last 10 days one hundred and twelve, in the past 30 days one hundred and twelve and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 92 km WSW of Illapel, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -72.1141° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -31.8328° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 92km 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 2015-09-21 20:24:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-21 22:14:11 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 1.253 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.84 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 144 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 us20003mjy Id of event.
Event Code 20003mjy An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003mjy, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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