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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag strikes near Lampa in Chile

Posted by admin on April 28, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -33.1282S, -70.9595WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Lampa in Chile. Exact location of event, longitude -70.9595 West, latitude -33.1282 South, depth = 67.51 km. Event id: us1000dtyp. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000dtyp. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/04/18 / 2018-04-28 01:40:55 / April 28, 2018 @ 1:40 am. The temblor was detected at 21:40:55 / 9:40 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 67.51 km (42 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was La Ligua, San Antonio, Paine. Event epicenter was 47 km (29 miles) from Santiago (c. 4 837 300 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Puente Alto (c. 510 400 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Viña del Mar (c. 294 600 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Valparaíso (c. 282 400 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from San Bernardo (c. 249 900 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days sixty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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 NNW of Lampa, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -70.9595° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -33.1282° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 67.51 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18km NNW of Lampa, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-04-28 01:40:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-28 12:35:16 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 158 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 0.198 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.51 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 53 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000dtyp Id of event.
Event Code 1000dtyp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000dtyp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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