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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Calama in Chile


Earthquake location -22.2498S, -68.6434WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Calama in Chile on Friday. Exact location, longitude -68.6434° West, latitude -22.2498° South, depth = 133.59 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 133.59 km (83 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us2000adxx. Event ids that are associated: us2000adxx. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:35:02 / 3:35 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 01/09/17 / 2017-09-01 19:35:02 / September 1, 2017 @ 7:35 pm UTC/GMT.

Event epicenter was 37 km (23 miles) from Calama (c. 143 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Calama. Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days sixty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 38 km NE of Calama, Chile.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.6434° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -22.2498° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 133.59 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 38km NE 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 2017-09-01 19:35:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-01 21:43:18 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 284 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 0.437 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 107 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 us2000adxx Id of event.
Event Code 2000adxx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000adxx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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