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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Calama in Chile


Earthquake location -22.8337S, -68.7463WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Calama in Chile. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:40:54 / 7:40 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 09/02/19 / 2019-02-09 23:40:54 / February 9, 2019 @ 11:40 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000jfsq. Unique identifier: us2000jfsq. Exact location of earthquake, -68.7463° West, -22.8337° South, depth 103.54 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 103.54 km (64 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the event was 46 km (29 miles) from Calama (c. 143 100 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Calama (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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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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: 44 km SSE of Calama, Chile.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.7463° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -22.8337° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 103.54 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 44km SSE of Calama, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-02-09 23:40:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-09 23:53:25 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 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 271 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 0.536 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.24 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 109 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000jfsq Id of event.
Event Code 2000jfsq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000jfsq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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