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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Tocopilla in Chile


Earthquake location -22.806S, -69.8664WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 86 kilometers (53 miles) from Tocopilla in Chile. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us10007sna. Ids that are associated to the event: us10007sna. Exact location, longitude -69.8664° West, latitude -22.806° South, depth = 74.32 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 74.32 km (46 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 11/01/17 / 2017-01-11 22:13:55 / January 11, 2017 @ 10:13 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 18:13:55 / 6:13 pm (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 86 km (54 miles) from Tocopilla (c. 24 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tocopilla.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-one 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 quakes 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 86 km SSE of Tocopilla, Chile. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -69.8664° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -22.806° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 74.32 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 86km SSE of Tocopilla, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-01-11 22:13:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-11 22:36:35 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 284 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 0.289 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.92 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 109 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 us10007sna Id of event.
Event Code 10007sna An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007sna, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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