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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Illapel in Chile


Earthquake location -31.7104S, -72.0515WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 84 kilometers (52 miles) from Illapel in Chile on Monday. Exact location, longitude -72.0515° West, latitude -31.7104° South, depth = 26.07 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us10003kln. Unique identifier: us10003kln. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/10/15 / 2015-10-06 02:00:59 / October 6, 2015 @ 2:00 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 21:00:59 / 9:00 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 26.07 km (16 miles).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 84 km (52 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Illapel.

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 five, in the last 10 days twenty-eight, in the past 30 days two hundred and twenty-three and in the last 365 days two hundred and thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 84 km W of Illapel, Chile.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -72.0515° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -31.7104° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 26.07 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 84km 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 2015-10-06 02:00:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-10-06 03:00:15 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 326 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 1.093 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.01 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 151 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 us10003kln Id of event.
Event Code 10003kln An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003kln, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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