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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near Valparaiso in Chile


Earthquake location -33.0624S, -72.1446WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 48 kilometers (30 miles) from Valparaiso in Chile. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 18.12 km (11 miles). The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:53:12 / 3:53 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/04/17 / 2017-04-23 20:53:12 / April 23, 2017 @ 8:53 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -72.1446 West, latitude -33.0624 South, depth = 18.12 km. Event id: us10008k3j. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10008k3j.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cartagena, Villa Alemana, Quilpué (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) from Viña del Mar (c. 294 600 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Valparaíso (c. 282 400 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Quilpué (c. 130 300 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Villa Alemana (c. 97 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Cartagena (c. 16 900 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been ninety-six, in the last 10 days ninety-six, in the past 30 days ninety-six and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -72.1446° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -33.0624° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 18.12 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 20:53:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-05-04 15:19:47 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 129 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 0.427 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 203 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10008k3j Id of event.
Event Code 10008k3j An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008k3j, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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