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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Constitucion in Chile


Earthquake location -34.6811S, -72.5446WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 73 kilometers (45 miles) from Constitucion in Chile. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us10003yiu. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10003yiu. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -72.5446 West, latitude -34.6811 South, depth = 10 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/11/15 / 2015-11-15 19:06:27 / November 15, 2015 @ 7:06 pm. The temblor was detected at 14:06:27 / 2:06 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Constitución. Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 74 km (46 miles) from Constitución (c. 37 900 pop).

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

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 73 km N of Constitucion, Chile. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -72.5446° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -34.6811° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 73km N of Constitucion, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-15 19:06:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-14 19:35:41 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 284 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 0.602 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.62 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 188 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 us10003yiu Id of event.
Event Code 10003yiu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003yiu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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