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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Valparaiso in Chile


Earthquake location -32.5354S, -71.9109WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 61 kilometers (38 miles) from Valparaiso in Chile on Sunday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000en2x. Unique identifier: us1000en2x. Exact time and date of earthquake 11/06/18 / 2018-06-11 03:49:06 / June 11, 2018 @ 3:49 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -71.9109° West, -32.5354° South, depth 20.55 km. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:49:06 / 10:49 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 20.55 km (13 miles).

Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Limache, Villa Alemana, Quillota (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from Viña del Mar (c. 294 600 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Valparaíso (c. 282 400 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Quilpué (c. 130 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Villa Alemana (c. 97 300 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Quillota (c. 67 800 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Hacienda La Calera (c. 49 100 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light 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 two and in the last 365 days fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 61 km NNW of Valparaiso, Chile.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.9109° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -32.5354° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 20.55 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 61km NNW of Valparaiso, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-06-11 03:49:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-11 04:12:49 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 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 284 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 0.518 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 73 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 us1000en2x Id of event.
Event Code 1000en2x An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000en2x, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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