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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Constitucion in Chile


Earthquake location -35.5328S, -73.0967WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 65 kilometers (40 miles) from Constitucion in Chile on Sunday. Exact location, longitude -73.0967° West, latitude -35.5328° South, depth = 20.15 km. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:12:35 / 12:12 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us70005njk. Unique identifier: us70005njk. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 29/09/19 / 2019-09-29 17:12:35 / September 29, 2019 @ 5:12 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 20.15 km (13 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Cauquenes, Constitución. Epicenter of the earthquake was 66 km (41 miles) from Constitución (c. 37 900 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Cauquenes (c. 31 400 pop). Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 65 km WSW of Constitucion, Chile.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -73.0967° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -35.5328° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 20.15 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 65km WSW of Constitucion, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-09-29 17:12:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-29 19:06:18 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 284 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 1.214 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.16 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 162 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 us70005njk Id of event.
Event Code 70005njk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005njk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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