Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag has occurred near Talcahuano in Chile

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was reported 93 kilometers (58 miles) from Talcahuano in Chile on Thursday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70005c7g. Id of event: us70005c7g. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:41:31 / 12:41 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -73.8149 West, latitude -36.0953 South, depth = 10 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 05/09/19 / 2019-09-05 05:41:31 / September 5, 2019 @ 5:41 am UTC/GMT.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Concepción, Penco, Tomé (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 94 km (58 miles) from Talcahuano (c. 253 000 pop), 106 km (66 miles) from Concepción (c. 215 400 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Tomé (c. 46 700 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Penco (c. 46 100 pop).

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

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 93 km NW of Talcahuano, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-73.8149° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-36.0953° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	93km NW 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	2019-09-05 05:41:31	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-09-05 05:56:58	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	5	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.4	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	402	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	0.823	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.57 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	117	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	us70005c7g	Id of event.
Event Code	70005c7g	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70005c7g,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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