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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near La Serena in Chile


Earthquake location -29.6644S, -71.3376WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from La Serena in Chile. Exact location of event, depth 39.68 km, -71.3376° West, -29.6644° South. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 18:54:32 / 6:54 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/02/19 / 2019-02-25 22:54:32 / February 25, 2019 @ 10:54 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 39.68 km (25 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000jn53. Unique identifier: us2000jn53.

Epicenter of the event was 32 km (20 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from La Serena (c. 154 500 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Vicuña (c. 13 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Vicuña, Coquimbo, La Serena (min 5000 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 28 km NNW of La Serena, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.3376° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -29.6644° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 39.68 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28km NNW of La Serena, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-02-25 22:54:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-25 23:30:07 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.1 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 326 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 0.267 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.99 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 91 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 us2000jn53 Id of event.
Event Code 2000jn53 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000jn53, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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