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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Coquimbo in Chile


Earthquake location -30.3933S, -72.0488WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 83 kilometers (52 miles) from Coquimbo in Chile. Exact location of event, depth 18.85 km, -72.0488° West, -30.3933° South. The temblor was detected at 03:28:56 / 3:28 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 18.85 km (12 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10006p86. Id of event: us10006p86. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 13/09/16 / 2016-09-13 08:28:56 / September 13, 2016 @ 8:28 am.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was La Serena, Ovalle, Coquimbo. Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 84 km (52 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from La Serena (c. 154 500 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 83 km SW of Coquimbo, Chile.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -72.0488° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -30.3933° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 18.85 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 83km SW of Coquimbo, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-09-13 08:28:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-09-27 07:13:41 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 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 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 0.453 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 195 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 us10006p86 Id of event.
Event Code 10006p86 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006p86, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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