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Light earthquake: M4 quake has struck near Copiapo in Chile


Earthquake location -27.006S, -69.998WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 51 kilometers (32 miles) from Copiapo in Chile. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -69.998 West, latitude -27.006 South, depth = 94.6 km. The temblor was picked up at 15:38:17 / 3:38 pm (local time epicenter). 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 94.6 km (59 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/05/17 / 2017-05-17 19:38:17 / May 17, 2017 @ 7:38 pm. Event id: us10008t34. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10008t34.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Diego de Almagro, Copiapó (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 52 km (32 miles) from Copiapó (c. 129 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Diego de Almagro (c. 18 100 pop). Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 51 km NE of Copiapo, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -69.998° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -27.006° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 94.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 51km NE of Copiapo, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-05-17 19:38:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-06-15 15:18:30 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 246 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.87 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 ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10008t34 Id of event.
Event Code 10008t34 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008t34, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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