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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near La Ligua in Chile


Earthquake location -32.0145S, -71.7618WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 69 kilometers (43 miles) from La Ligua in Chile on Monday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us2000kc5a. Event ids that are associated: us2000kc5a. Global time and date of event 08/04/19 / 2019-04-08 06:39:42 / April 8, 2019 @ 6:39 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 33.77 km (21 miles). Exact location, longitude -71.7618° West, latitude -32.0145° South, depth = 33.77 km. The temblor was picked up at 01:39:42 / 1:39 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 70 km (43 miles) from La Ligua (c. 24 900 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Salamanca (c. 13 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Salamanca, Illapel, La Ligua (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 69 km NW of La Ligua, Chile.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.7618° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -32.0145° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 33.77 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 69km NW of La Ligua, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-04-08 06:39:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-08 07:06:26 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 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 1.011 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 137 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 us2000kc5a Id of event.
Event Code 2000kc5a An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000kc5a, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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