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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near San Pedro de Atacama in Chile


Earthquake location -22.8324S, -68.3757WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from San Pedro de Atacama in Chile. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 31/12/17 / 2017-12-31 11:01:07 / December 31, 2017 @ 11:01 am. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:01:07 / 7:01 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 134.59 km (84 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -68.3757 West, latitude -22.8324 South, depth = 134.59 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us1000byh7. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000byh7.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Calama. Epicenter of the earthquake was 71 km (44 miles) from Calama (c. 143 100 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).

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 one, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fifty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 18 km WNW of San Pedro de Atacama, Chile.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.3757° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -22.8324° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 134.59 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18km WNW of San Pedro de Atacama, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-12-31 11:01:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-31 11:25:06 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 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 0.217 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.33 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 71 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 us1000byh7 Id of event.
Event Code 1000byh7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000byh7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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