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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Hacienda La Calera in Chile


Earthquake location -32.7389S, -71.1321WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Hacienda La Calera in Chile. Exact location, longitude -71.1321° West, latitude -32.7389° South, depth = 53.43 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 53.43 km (33 miles). The temblor was detected at 12:52:18 / 12:52 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us1000dnuk. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000dnuk. Exact time and date of earthquake 19/04/18 / 2018-04-19 16:52:18 / April 19, 2018 @ 4:52 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Santiago, Lo Prado, Chicureo Abajo (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). The epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) from Santiago (c. 4 837 300 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Viña del Mar (c. 294 600 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Valparaíso (c. 282 400 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Quilpué (c. 130 300 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Lo Prado (c. 104 300 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Villa Alemana (c. 97 300 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 9 km ENE of Hacienda La Calera, Chile. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.1321° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -32.7389° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 53.43 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km ENE of Hacienda La Calera, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-04-19 16:52:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-19 21:33:22 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 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 272 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 0.225 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.59 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 86 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 us1000dnuk Id of event.
Event Code 1000dnuk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000dnuk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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