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Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag has occurred near Antofagasta, Chile


Earthquake location -23.8299S, -69.2026WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) was reported Antofagasta, Chile (0 miles) on Wednesday. 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 97.03 km (60 miles). The 5.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:22:27 / 11:22 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -69.2026° West, -23.8299° South, depth 97.03 km. Global time and date of event 19/07/17 / 2017-07-19 23:22:27 / July 19, 2017 @ 11:22 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us20009yal. Unique identifier: us20009yal.

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

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: Antofagasta, Chile. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -69.2026° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -23.8299° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 97.03 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Antofagasta, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-07-19 23:22:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-07-19 23:41:02 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 4 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.7 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 417 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 0.666 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 50 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 us20009yal Id of event.
Event Code 20009yal An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20009yal, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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