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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near La Ligua in Chile


Earthquake location -32.0722S, -71.9WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 75 kilometers (47 miles) from La Ligua in Chile. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:39:35 / 7:39 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/05/16 / 2016-05-23 12:39:35 / May 23, 2016 @ 12:39 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10005jb1. Id of event: us10005jb1. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -71.9° West, -32.0722° South, depth 10.54 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10.54 km (7 miles).

Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from La Ligua (c. 24 900 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Salamanca (c. 13 300 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Salamanca, Illapel, La Ligua (min 5000 pop).

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

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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: 75 km WNW of La Ligua, Chile. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.9° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -32.0722° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.54 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 75km 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 2016-05-23 12:39:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-06 12:09:41 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 298 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 0.705 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.9 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 138 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 us10005jb1 Id of event.
Event Code 10005jb1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005jb1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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