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

Posted by admin on August 1, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location -34.196S, -72.202WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 85 kilometers (53 miles) from San Antonio in Chile. Unique identifier: us60004yrj. Ids that are associated to the event: us60004yrj. Exact location of event, longitude -72.202 West, latitude -34.196 South, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/08/19 / 2019-08-01 19:36:25 / August 1, 2019 @ 7:36 pm. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:36:25 / 3:36 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Earthquake epicenter was 86 km (54 miles) from San Antonio (c. 85 700 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Santa Cruz (c. 33 300 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Cartagena (c. 16 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Santa Cruz, Cartagena, San Antonio (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 85 km SW of San Antonio, Chile. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -72.202° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -34.196° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 85km SW of San Antonio, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-08-01 19:36:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-01 20:23:39 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 4.1 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 370 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 0.726 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 77 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 us60004yrj Id of event.
Event Code 60004yrj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60004yrj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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