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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag strikes near Putre in Chile


Earthquake location -18.2035S, -69.3906WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Putre in Chile. Exact location, longitude -69.3906° West, latitude -18.2035° South, depth = 124.92 km. The temblor was detected at 23:16:44 / 11:16 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us1000c30a. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000c30a. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/01/18 / 2018-01-10 03:16:44 / January 10, 2018 @ 3:16 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 124.92 km (78 miles).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Arica, Tacna. Epicenter of the event was 94 km (58 miles) from Tacna (c. 280 100 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Arica (c. 186 000 pop). Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop), Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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: 18 km E of Putre, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -69.3906° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -18.2035° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 124.92 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18km E of Putre, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-01-10 03:16:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-10 04:14:44 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 385 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 0.171 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.96 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 60 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 us1000c30a Id of event.
Event Code 1000c30a An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000c30a, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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