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Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near Putre in Chile


Earthquake location -18.8082S, -69.6507WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 68 kilometers (42 miles) from Putre in Chile. Exact location of event, depth 95.37 km, -69.6507° West, -18.8082° South. The temblor was reported at 05:34:12 / 5:34 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 10/03/16 / 2016-03-10 08:34:12 / March 10, 2016 @ 8:34 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10004wgx. Id of event: us10004wgx. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 95.37 km (59 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 78 km (48 miles) from Arica (c. 186 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arica. Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 68 km S of Putre, Chile. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -69.6507° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -18.8082° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 95.37 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 68km S of Putre, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-03-10 08:34:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-10 08:58:52 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -180 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 385 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 0.489 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.45 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 89 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 us10004wgx Id of event.
Event Code 10004wgx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004wgx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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