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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near San Antonio in Chile


Earthquake location -33.9053S, -72.4967WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 88 kilometers (55 miles) from San Antonio in Chile. The temblor was picked up at 21:59:54 / 9:59 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/10/17 / 2017-10-23 02:59:54 / October 23, 2017 @ 2:59 am. Exact location of earthquake, -72.4967° West, -33.9053° South, depth 12.04 km. Id of earthquake: us1000avt3. Event ids that are associated: us1000avt3. 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 12.04 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Cartagena, San Antonio. Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 89 km (55 miles) from San Antonio (c. 85 700 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Cartagena (c. 16 900 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-three 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 respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 88 km WSW of San Antonio, Chile.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -72.4967° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -33.9053° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.04 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 88km WSW of San Antonio, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-10-23 02:59:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-23 03:29:32 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 298 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 0.775 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.97 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 80 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 us1000avt3 Id of event.
Event Code 1000avt3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000avt3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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