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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag was detected near Los Andes in Chile


Earthquake location -32.9965S, -70.7478WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Los Andes in Chile. Id of earthquake: us600040l2. Event ids that are associated: us600040l2. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/06/19 / 2019-06-14 04:14:36 / June 14, 2019 @ 4:14 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -70.7478 West, latitude -32.9965 South, depth = 84.38 km. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:14:36 / 12:14 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 84.38 km (52 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Paine, Melipilla, Valparaíso. Earthquake epicenter was 52 km (32 miles) from Santiago (c. 4 837 300 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Puente Alto (c. 510 400 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Viña del Mar (c. 294 600 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Valparaíso (c. 282 400 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from San Bernardo (c. 249 900 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from La Pintana (c. 201 200 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 one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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. 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: 22 km SW of Los Andes, Chile.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -70.7478° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -32.9965° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 84.38 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22km SW of Los Andes, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-06-14 04:14:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-14 04:55:12 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 259 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 0.158 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 48 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 us600040l2 Id of event.
Event Code 600040l2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us600040l2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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