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Moderate earthquake 5.7 mag, 85 km WSW of San Antonio, Chile


Earthquake location -33.7642S, -72.5208WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 85 kilometers (53 miles) from San Antonio in Chile. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -72.5208° West, -33.7642° South. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/04/19 / 2019-04-07 10:52:40 / April 7, 2019 @ 10:52 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000kbs5. Unique identifier: us2000kbs5. The temblor was reported at 05:52:40 / 5:52 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Epicenter of the event was 87 km (54 miles) from San Antonio (c. 85 700 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from Cartagena (c. 16 900 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cartagena, San Antonio (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate 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 eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

Questions or comments?

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: 85 km WSW of San Antonio, Chile.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -72.5208° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -33.7642° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 85km WSW of San Antonio, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-04-07 10:52:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-07 11:18:40 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 4 The total number of felt reports
CDI 6.1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.875 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 502 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 0.763 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.86 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 79 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 us2000kbs5 Id of event.
Event Code 2000kbs5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000kbs5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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