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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Calama in Chile


Earthquake location -21.7131S, -68.839WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 84 kilometers (52 miles) from Calama in Chile on Wednesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us70003vnr. Event ids that are associated: us70003vnr. Exact location of earthquake, -68.839° West, -21.7131° South, depth 109.93 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 109.93 km (68 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 05/06/19 / 2019-06-05 07:18:22 / June 5, 2019 @ 7:18 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 03:18:22 / 3:18 am (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 83 km (52 miles) from Calama (c. 143 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Calama (min 5000 pop). Nearby 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 three, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days eighty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 84 km N of Calama, Chile.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.839° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -21.7131° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 109.93 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 84km N 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 2019-06-05 07:18:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-05 07:40:18 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 312 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 0.383 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 83 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 us70003vnr Id of event.
Event Code 70003vnr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003vnr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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