Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Earthquake breaking news, Moderate World Earthquakes Magnitude 5–5.9

Moderate earthquake 5.4 mag, 108 km E of Iquique, Chile


Earthquake location -20.3273S, -69.1123WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 108 kilometers (67 miles) from Iquique in Chile. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 24/01/18 / 2018-01-24 07:46:05 / January 24, 2018 @ 7:46 am. The temblor was reported at 03:46:05 / 3:46 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 103.06 km (64 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us2000cnmf. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000cnmf. Exact location of event, longitude -69.1123 West, latitude -20.3273 South, depth = 103.06 km.

Event epicenter was 108 km (67 miles) from Iquique (c. 227 500 pop). Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Iquique.

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 sixty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

Did you feel it?

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: 108 km E of Iquique, Chile.

Copyright © 2018 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -69.1123° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -20.3273° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 103.06 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 108km E of Iquique, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-01-24 07:46:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-24 08:06:16 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 449 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 0.189 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.39 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 44 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 us2000cnmf Id of event.
Event Code 2000cnmf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000cnmf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply