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Light earthquake: M4.9 quake has struck near Putre in Chile


Earthquake location -18.5438S, -69.3857WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was reported 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Putre in Chile on Saturday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 29/06/19 / 2019-06-29 20:14:43 / June 29, 2019 @ 8:14 pm. Unique identifier: us700047gj. Ids that are associated to the event: us700047gj. The epicenter was at a depth of 126.22 km (78 miles). The 4.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:14:43 / 4:14 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -69.3857° West, latitude -18.5438° South, depth = 126.22 km.

Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 96 km (60 miles) from Arica (c. 186 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Arica (min 5000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 42 km SSE of Putre, Chile.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -69.3857° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -18.5438° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 126.22 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 42km SSE of Putre, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-06-29 20:14:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-29 20:33:24 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 369 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 0.923 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.92 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 78 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 us700047gj Id of event.
Event Code 700047gj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700047gj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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