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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near La Ligua in Chile


Earthquake location -32.3117S, -72.1917WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 91 kilometers (57 miles) from La Ligua in Chile on Friday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 5.68 km, -72.1917° West, -32.3117° South. Unique identifier: us100049iu. Ids that are associated to the event: us100049iu. The temblor was picked up at 15:11:16 / 3:11 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 25/12/15 / 2015-12-25 20:11:16 / December 25, 2015 @ 8:11 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5.68 km (4 miles).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was La Ligua (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) from La Ligua (c. 24 900 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days two hundred and twenty-four 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. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 91 km W of La Ligua, 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 -72.1917° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -32.3117° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.68 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 91km W 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 2015-12-25 20:11:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-25 21:03:59 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 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 0.849 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 179 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 us100049iu Id of event.
Event Code 100049iu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100049iu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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