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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near San Pedro de Atacama in Chile


Earthquake location -22.8524S, -68.6337WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 43 kilometers (27 miles) from San Pedro de Atacama in Chile on Sunday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 121.52 km (76 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/11/15 / 2015-11-29 23:48:13 / November 29, 2015 @ 11:48 pm. Id of earthquake: us1000422l. Event ids that are associated: us1000422l. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:48:13 / 8:48 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -68.6337° West, -22.8524° South, depth 121.52 km.

Epicenter of the event was 54 km (33 miles) from Calama (c. 143 100 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Calama (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 43 km W of San Pedro de Atacama, Chile.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.6337° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -22.8524° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 121.52 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 43km W of San Pedro de Atacama, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-29 23:48:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-30 00:06:36 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 298 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 0.35 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.34 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 94 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 us1000422l Id of event.
Event Code 1000422l An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000422l, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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