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Moderate earthquake, 5.8 mag has occurred near Santa Cruz in Chile

Posted by admin on August 1, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location -34.2833S, -72.3676WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 99 kilometers (62 miles) from Santa Cruz in Chile. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/08/19 / 2019-08-01 20:01:28 / August 1, 2019 @ 8:01 pm. The 5.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:01:28 / 3:01 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us60004ys7. Event ids that are associated: us60004ys7. Exact location of earthquake, -72.3676° West, -34.2833° South, depth 14.55 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 14.55 km (9 miles).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Vicente, Constitución, Cartagena. The epicenter was 104 km (65 miles) from San Antonio (c. 85 700 pop), 117 km (73 miles) from Constitución (c. 37 900 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Santa Cruz (c. 33 300 pop), 119 km (74 miles) from San Vicente (c. 22 600 pop), 107 km (67 miles) from Cartagena (c. 16 900 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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: 99 km WNW of Santa Cruz, Chile.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -72.3676° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -34.2833° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 14.55 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 99km WNW of Santa Cruz, 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 20:01:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-01 20:18:54 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.8 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.798 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 518 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 0.884 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 80 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us60004ys7 Id of event.
Event Code 60004ys7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60004ys7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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