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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 12 km W of San Javier, Chile


Earthquake location -35.613S, -71.891WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from San Javier in Chile. The temblor was reported at 09:19:37 / 9:19 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us100061ag. Event ids that are associated: us100061ag. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/07/16 / 2016-07-06 13:19:37 / July 6, 2016 @ 1:19 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -71.891 West, latitude -35.613 South, depth = 14.24 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 14.24 km (9 miles).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 30 km (18 miles) from Talca (c. 197 500 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Curicó (c. 102 400 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Linares (c. 69 500 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Constitución (c. 37 900 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from San Carlos (c. 31 500 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Cauquenes (c. 31 400 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Rauco, Curicó, San Carlos.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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: 12 km W of San Javier, 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 -71.891° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -35.613° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 14.24 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km W of San Javier, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-07-06 13:19:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-28 13:07:57 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 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 0.413 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 108 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 us100061ag Id of event.
Event Code 100061ag An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100061ag, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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