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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 88 km NW of Antofagasta, Chile


Earthquake location -23.0883S, -71.0152WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 88 kilometers (55 miles) from Antofagasta in Chile. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/01/17 / 2017-01-08 14:58:30 / January 8, 2017 @ 2:58 pm. Exact location of event, depth 20.91 km, -71.0152° West, -23.0883° South. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 20.91 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). Unique identifier: us10007rzw. Ids that are associated to the event: us10007rzw. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:58:30 / 9:58 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Event epicenter was 89 km (55 miles) from Antofagasta (c. 309 800 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Antofagasta (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 88 km NW of Antofagasta, Chile.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.0152° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -23.0883° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 20.91 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 88km NW of Antofagasta, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-01-08 14:58:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-09 20:04:06 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 326 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 0.598 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 163 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10007rzw Id of event.
Event Code 10007rzw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007rzw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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