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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Puerto Quellon in Chile


Earthquake location -43.1568S, -74.4464WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 67 kilometers (42 miles) from Puerto Quellon in Chile on Wednesday. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:24:51 / 9:24 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/11/15 / 2015-11-26 00:24:51 / November 26, 2015 @ 12:24 am. Exact location, longitude -74.4464° West, latitude -43.1568° South, depth = 16.09 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 16.09 km (10 miles). Id of earthquake: us1000426v. Event ids that are associated: us1000426v. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Event epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from Puerto Quellón (c. 21 800 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Chonchi (c. 12 600 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Chonchi, Puerto Quellón (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 67 km W of Puerto Quellon, Chile.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -74.4464° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -43.1568° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16.09 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 67km W of Puerto Quellon, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-26 00:24:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-23 05:15:42 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 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 0.574 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.88 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 219 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 us1000426v Id of event.
Event Code 1000426v An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000426v, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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