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Light earthquake 4 mag, 6 km ESE of Osorno, Chile


Earthquake location -40.5916S, -73.0752WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Osorno in Chile. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 18/01/19 / 2019-01-18 12:34:08 / January 18, 2019 @ 12:34 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 08:34:08 / 8:34 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -73.0752° West, -40.5916° South, depth 57.73 km. Unique identifier: us2000j7iw. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000j7iw. The epicenter was at a depth of 57.73 km (36 miles).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Las Animas, Valdivia, Puerto Varas. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). The epicenter was 5 km (3 miles) from Osorno (c. 135 800 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from Valdivia (c. 133 400 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Las Animas (c. 30 000 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from La Unión (c. 26 300 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Puerto Varas (c. 25 000 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Frutillar (c. 16 900 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days two 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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 6 km ESE of Osorno, Chile. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -73.0752° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -40.5916° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 57.73 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km ESE of Osorno, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-01-18 12:34:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-22 22:44:39 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 246 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 0.598 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 139 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 us2000j7iw Id of event.
Event Code 2000j7iw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000j7iw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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