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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Cauquenes in Chile


Earthquake location -36.038S, -73.0078WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 62 kilometers (39 miles) from Cauquenes in Chile. Event id: us2000c2i0. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000c2i0. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 10/12/17 / 2017-12-10 02:09:30 / December 10, 2017 @ 2:09 am. The temblor was picked up at 22:09:30 / 10:09 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -73.0078 West, latitude -36.038 South, depth = 33.55 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 33.55 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface.

The epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Talcahuano (c. 253 000 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Concepción (c. 215 400 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Tomé (c. 46 700 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Penco (c. 46 100 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Constitución (c. 37 900 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Cauquenes (c. 31 400 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Constitución, Concepción, Penco (min 5000 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 62 km W of Cauquenes, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -73.0078° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -36.038° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 33.55 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 62km W of Cauquenes, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-12-10 02:09:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-10 02:41:08 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 9 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.1 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 315 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 0.723 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 103 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000c2i0 Id of event.
Event Code 2000c2i0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000c2i0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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