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Moderate earthquake, 5.4 mag strikes near Coquimbo in Chile

Posted by admin on September 26, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location -29.8605S, -71.4515WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Coquimbo in Chile. Exact location of earthquake, -71.4515° West, -29.8605° South, depth 36.9 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/09/19 / 2019-09-26 20:31:30 / September 26, 2019 @ 8:31 pm. The temblor was picked up at 16:31:30 / 4:31 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us70005lzd. Unique identifier: us70005lzd. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 36.9 km (23 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Monte Patria, Ovalle, Vicuña. The epicenter was 15 km (9 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop), 20 km (13 miles) from La Serena (c. 154 500 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop), 104 km (65 miles) from Monte Patria (c. 13 900 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Vicuña (c. 13 500 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes 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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days eighty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 14 km NW of Coquimbo, Chile.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.4515° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -29.8605° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 36.9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km NW of Coquimbo, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-09-26 20:31:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-26 20:48:51 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 4 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.6 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 450 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 0.193 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 87 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 us70005lzd Id of event.
Event Code 70005lzd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005lzd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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