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Light earthquake: M4 quake has struck near La Ligua in Chile

Posted by admin on February 4, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -32.201S, -71.686WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was reported 51 kilometers (32 miles) from La Ligua in Chile on Wednesday. Global time and date of event 06/01/16 / 2016-01-06 05:10:23 / January 6, 2016 @ 5:10 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 27 km, -71.686° West, -32.201° South. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 27 km (17 miles). Id of earthquake: us10004bpe. Event ids that are associated: us10004bpe. The temblor was picked up at 02:10:23 / 2:10 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Quillota, Salamanca, Illapel (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 86 km (54 miles) from Quillota (c. 67 800 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Hacienda La Calera (c. 49 100 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from La Ligua (c. 24 900 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Salamanca (c. 13 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).

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

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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 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: 51 km WNW of La Ligua, Chile.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.686° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -32.201° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 27 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 51km 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 2016-01-06 05:10:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-02-04 13:50:31 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 246 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.94 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10004bpe Id of event.
Event Code 10004bpe An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004bpe, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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