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Light earthquake 4 mag, 53 km W of San Pedro de Atacama, Chile


Earthquake location -23.008S, -68.731WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 53 kilometers (33 miles) from San Pedro de Atacama in Chile. Event id: us10006jsi. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10006jsi. 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 106.3 km (66 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -68.731° West, -23.008° South, depth 106.3 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 02/09/16 / 2016-09-02 21:55:33 / September 2, 2016 @ 9:55 pm. The 4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:55:33 / 5:55 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 65 km (40 miles) from Calama (c. 143 100 pop). Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Calama.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 53 km W of San Pedro de Atacama, Chile.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.731° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -23.008° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 106.3 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 53km W 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 2016-09-02 21:55:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-09-02 23:18:50 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 246 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.99 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10006jsi Id of event.
Event Code 10006jsi An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006jsi, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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