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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near San Pedro de Atacama in Chile


Earthquake location -22.3901S, -67.1889WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 120 km ENE of San Pedro de Atacama, Chile (75 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20006h58. Id of event: us20006h58. Global time and date of event 23/07/16 / 2016-07-23 22:17:56 / July 23, 2016 @ 10:17 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.1889 West, latitude -22.3901 South, depth = 21.1 km. The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:17:56 / 6:17 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 21.1 km (13 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. 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 thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 120 km ENE of San Pedro de Atacama, Chile.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.1889° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -22.3901° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 21.1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 120km ENE of San Pedro de Atacama, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-07-23 22:17:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-23 22:36:51 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 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 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 1.071 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 30 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 us20006h58 Id of event.
Event Code 20006h58 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20006h58, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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