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Light earthquake 4.7 mag, 62 km WNW of Illapel, Chile


Earthquake location -31.4534S, -71.7955WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 62 kilometers (39 miles) from Illapel in Chile. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:23:09 / 8:23 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20005bbr. Id of event: us20005bbr. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/03/16 / 2016-03-20 23:23:09 / March 20, 2016 @ 11:23 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -71.7955 West, latitude -31.4534 South, depth = 24.13 km. 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 24.13 km (15 miles).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Salamanca, Illapel (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Salamanca (c. 13 300 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 62 km WNW of Illapel, Chile.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.7955° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -31.4534° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 24.13 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 62km WNW of Illapel, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-03-20 23:23:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-20 23:42:16 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 340 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 0.724 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 143 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 us20005bbr Id of event.
Event Code 20005bbr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005bbr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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