Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag has occurred near La Ligua in Chile

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) was reported 64 kilometers (40 miles) from La Ligua in Chile on Friday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 17.5 km (11 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 18/09/15 / 2015-09-18 21:26:13 / September 18, 2015 @ 9:26 pm UTC/GMT. The 3.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:26:13 / 4:26 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -71.8956 West, latitude -32.3154 South, depth = 17.5 km. Id of earthquake: us20003lke. Event ids that are associated: us20003lke.

Event epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from Viña del Mar (c. 294 600 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Valparaíso (c. 282 400 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from Quillota (c. 67 800 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Hacienda La Calera (c. 49 100 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from La Ligua (c. 24 900 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Quillota, Viña del Mar, Valparaíso (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and ten, in the last 10 days one hundred and fifty-two, in the past 30 days one hundred and fifty-two and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 64 km WNW of La Ligua, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-71.8956° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-32.3154° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	17.5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	64km 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	2015-09-18 21:26:13	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-10-06 00:08:11	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	234	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	0.738	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.76 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	187	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mwr	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us20003lke	Id of event.
Event Code	20003lke	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20003lke,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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