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Moderate earthquake 5 mag, 81 km WSW of Vallenar, Chile


Earthquake location -28.9219S, -71.4883WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes 81 kilometers (50 miles) from Vallenar in Chile on Sunday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 31.92 km (20 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -71.4883° West, -28.9219° South, depth 31.92 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 26/02/17 / 2017-02-26 08:59:16 / February 26, 2017 @ 8:59 am UTC/GMT. Event id: us20008mhp. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20008mhp. The temblor was detected at 04:59:16 / 4:59 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

The epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) from Vallenar (c. 44 900 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Vallenar. Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 81 km WSW of Vallenar, Chile.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.4883° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -28.9219° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 31.92 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 81km WSW of Vallenar, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-02-26 08:59:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-02-26 09:21:46 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 385 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 0.696 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 94 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 us20008mhp Id of event.
Event Code 20008mhp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20008mhp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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