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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near Talcahuano in Chile

Posted by admin on July 16, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location -36.6673S, -73.0811WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Talcahuano in Chile. All ids that are associated to the event: us70004lsv. Unique identifier: us70004lsv. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 32.67 km (20 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/07/19 / 2019-07-16 03:19:48 / July 16, 2019 @ 3:19 am. The temblor was detected at 23:19:48 / 11:19 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -73.0811 West, latitude -36.6673 South, depth = 32.67 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was La Laja, Cabrero, Bulnes (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 7 km (4 miles) from Talcahuano (c. 253 000 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Concepción (c. 215 400 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Coronel (c. 92 900 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Chiguayante (c. 82 500 pop), 47 km (30 miles) from Lota (c. 49 800 pop). Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 6 km NNE of Talcahuano, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -73.0811° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -36.6673° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 32.67 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km NNE of Talcahuano, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-07-16 03:19:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-16 21:06:33 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 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 130 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 0.119 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.5 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 144 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us70004lsv Id of event.
Event Code 70004lsv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70004lsv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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