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Light earthquake 4.7 mag, 50 km WSW of Constitucion, Chile


Earthquake location -35.4609S, -72.9488WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Constitucion in Chile on Sunday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us70005nqz. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70005nqz. Exact location of event, depth 18.88 km, -72.9488° West, -35.4609° South. The temblor was detected at 23:49:34 / 11:49 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 18.88 km (12 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 30/09/19 / 2019-09-30 04:49:34 / September 30, 2019 @ 4:49 am UTC/GMT.

Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 51 km (32 miles) from Constitución (c. 37 900 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Cauquenes (c. 31 400 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cauquenes, Constitución (min 5000 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 50 km WSW of Constitucion, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -72.9488° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -35.4609° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 18.88 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 50km 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 2019-09-30 04:49:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-30 05:10:02 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 340 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 1.299 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 140 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 us70005nqz Id of event.
Event Code 70005nqz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005nqz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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