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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag has occurred near La Ligua in Chile


Earthquake location -32.0287S, -71.8651WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 76 kilometers (47 miles) from La Ligua in Chile. Global time and date of event 25/01/17 / 2017-01-25 06:47:02 / January 25, 2017 @ 6:47 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 35.09 km, -71.8651° West, -32.0287° South. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us10007vb4. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007vb4. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35.09 km (22 miles). The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:47:02 / 1:47 am (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Salamanca, Illapel, La Ligua (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from La Ligua (c. 24 900 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop), 89 km (56 miles) from Salamanca (c. 13 300 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days seventy-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 76 km NW of La Ligua, Chile.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.8651° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -32.0287° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35.09 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 76km NW of La Ligua, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-01-25 06:47:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-02-22 12:13:23 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 259 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 0.716 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.4 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 182 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 us10007vb4 Id of event.
Event Code 10007vb4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007vb4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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