Moderate earthquake, 5.6 mag strikes near Valparaiso in Chile

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.6 (ml/mb) was reported 48 kilometers (30 miles) from Valparaiso in Chile on Sunday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 15.96 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 14:40:09 / 2:40 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/04/17 / 2017-04-23 19:40:09 / April 23, 2017 @ 7:40 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -72.1484 West, latitude -33.0437 South, depth = 15.96 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us10008k2i. Unique identifier: us10008k2i.

Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 56 km (35 miles) from Viña del Mar (c. 294 600 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Valparaíso (c. 282 400 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Quilpué (c. 130 300 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Villa Alemana (c. 97 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from San Antonio (c. 85 700 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Quillota (c. 67 800 pop), 113 km (70 miles) from Melipilla (c. 63 100 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Hacienda La Calera (c. 49 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Llaillay, Melipilla, La Ligua.

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. 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: 48 km W of Valparaiso, Chile.

Chile Hacienda La Calera La Ligua Llaillay Melipilla Quillota Quilpue San Antonio Valparaiso Villa Alemana Vina del Mar

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-72.1484° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-33.0437° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	15.96 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	48km W of Valparaiso, Chile	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-04-23 19:40:09	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-04-23 20:03:38	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	15	The total number of felt reports
CDI	6.4	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	3.83	The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level	green	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	492	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	0.429	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.94 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	69	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mww	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us10008k2i	Id of event.
Event Code	10008k2i	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10008k2i,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

5.6 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

-72.1484° West

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

-33.0437° South

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

15.96 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

48km W of Valparaiso, Chile

Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.

Time

2017-04-23 19:40:09

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2017-04-23 20:03:38

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

6.4

The maximum reported intensity for the event.

MMI

3.83

The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.

Alert Level

green

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

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

492

A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.

Network

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

0.429

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

0.94 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).

Magnitude Type

mww

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us10008k2i

Id of event.

Event Code

10008k2i

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us10008k2i,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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