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Moderate earthquake 5.6 mag, 63 km SSW of Taltal, Chile


Earthquake location -25.9299S, -70.7335WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.6 (ml/mb) strikes 63 kilometers (39 miles) from Taltal in Chile on Wednesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:44:44 / 3:44 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 30/01/19 / 2019-01-30 07:44:44 / January 30, 2019 @ 7:44 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 38.64 km (24 miles). Exact location, longitude -70.7335° West, latitude -25.9299° South, depth = 38.64 km. Unique identifier: us1000iryd. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000iryd.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Diego de Almagro, Taltal. Epicenter of the event was 84 km (52 miles) from Diego de Almagro (c. 18 100 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Taltal (c. 10 000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 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 fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 63 km SSW of Taltal, Chile.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -70.7335° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -25.9299° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 38.64 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 63km SSW of Taltal, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-01-30 07:44:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-30 08:03:17 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 3.8 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.03 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 483 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 0.248 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.3 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 99 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000iryd Id of event.
Event Code 1000iryd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000iryd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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