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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag has occurred near Putre in Chile


Earthquake location -18.083S, -69.4218WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Putre in Chile. The temblor was reported at 02:18:04 / 2:18 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us70005rv1. Event ids that are associated: us70005rv1. Exact location of earthquake, -69.4218° West, -18.083° South, depth 134.69 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 08/10/19 / 2019-10-08 06:18:04 / October 8, 2019 @ 6:18 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 134.69 km (84 miles).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 88 km (55 miles) from Tacna (c. 280 100 pop), 102 km (64 miles) from Arica (c. 186 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Arica, Tacna (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop), Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 19 km NE of Putre, Chile.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -69.4218° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -18.083° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 134.69 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19km NE of Putre, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-10-08 06:18:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-08 06:32:13 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 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 369 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 0.263 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.41 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 111 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 us70005rv1 Id of event.
Event Code 70005rv1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005rv1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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