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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Calama in Chile

Posted by admin on June 9, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location -22.6098S, -68.8631WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Calama in Chile on Friday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 133.13 km (83 miles). The temblor was picked up at 00:20:17 / 12:20 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 133.13 km, -68.8631° West, -22.6098° South. Global time and date of event 09/06/17 / 2017-06-09 04:20:17 / June 9, 2017 @ 4:20 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us20009lfr. Event ids that are associated: us20009lfr.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Calama. The epicenter was 18 km (11 miles) from Calama (c. 143 100 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 17 km SSE of Calama, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.8631° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -22.6098° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 133.13 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17km SSE of Calama, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-06-09 04:20:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-06-09 04:52:18 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 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 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 0.044 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 96 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 us20009lfr Id of event.
Event Code 20009lfr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20009lfr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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