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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Talcahuano in Chile

Posted by admin on February 23, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location -36.1395S, -73.7688WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 86 kilometers (53 miles) from Talcahuano in Chile. Exact location of event, depth 22.91 km, -73.7688° West, -36.1395° South. 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: 22/02/17 / 2017-02-22 23:41:33 / February 22, 2017 @ 11:41 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 22.91 km (14 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us20008lmg. Event ids that are associated: us20008lmg. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:41:33 / 6:41 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tomé, Talcahuano (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 87 km (54 miles) from Talcahuano (c. 253 000 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Tomé (c. 46 700 pop). Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 86 km NW of Talcahuano, Chile.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -73.7688° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -36.1395° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 22.91 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 86km NW of Talcahuano, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-02-22 23:41:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-02-23 00:02:55 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 0.765 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.16 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 120 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 us20008lmg Id of event.
Event Code 20008lmg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20008lmg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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