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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 10 km SE of Mulchen, Chile


Earthquake location -37.7794S, -72.1494WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Mulchen in Chile. The temblor was detected at 04:52:16 / 4:52 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 87.05 km (54 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us10006s9y. Ids that are associated to the event: us10006s9y. 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: 24/09/16 / 2016-09-24 08:52:16 / September 24, 2016 @ 8:52 am. Exact location of event, depth 87.05 km, -72.1494° West, -37.7794° South.

Earthquake epicenter was 39 km (24 miles) from Los Ángeles (c. 125 400 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Angol (c. 44 900 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Victoria (c. 24 600 pop), 10 km (7 miles) from Mulchén (c. 22 200 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Lautaro (c. 21 600 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Nacimiento (c. 21 200 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lautaro, Cabrero, Yumbel (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 10 km SE of Mulchen, Chile.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -72.1494° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -37.7794° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 87.05 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km SE of Mulchen, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-09-24 08:52:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-22 12:12:57 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 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 271 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 1.322 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 116 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 us10006s9y Id of event.
Event Code 10006s9y An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006s9y, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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