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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag has occurred near Iquique in Chile


Earthquake location -20.2466S, -69.2235WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) strikes 96 kilometers (60 miles) from Iquique in Chile on Thursday. Global time and date of event 24/09/15 / 2015-09-24 07:14:42 / September 24, 2015 @ 7:14 am UTC/GMT. Event id: us20003nkv. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20003nkv. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 04:14:42 / 4:14 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -69.2235 West, latitude -20.2466 South, depth = 109.84 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 109.84 km (68 miles).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Iquique (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 96 km (59 miles) from Iquique (c. 227 500 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 96 km E of Iquique, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -69.2235° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -20.2466° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 109.84 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 96km E of Iquique, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-09-24 07:14:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-24 07:30:28 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 354 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 0.123 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.67 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 48 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 us20003nkv Id of event.
Event Code 20003nkv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003nkv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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