Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Illapel in Chile

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Illapel in Chile on Monday. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:52:23 / 4:52 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 39.89 km (25 miles). Exact location, longitude -71.4447° West, latitude -31.8006° South, depth = 39.89 km. Event id: us60006aci. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60006aci. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/11/19 / 2019-11-11 20:52:23 / November 11, 2019 @ 8:52 pm.

Earthquake epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from La Ligua (c. 24 900 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Salamanca (c. 13 300 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was La Ligua, Salamanca, Illapel (min 5000 pop).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 32 km SW of Illapel, Chile.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-71.4447° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-31.8006° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	39.89 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	32km SW of Illapel, Chile	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-11-11 20:52:23	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-11-12 14:24:34	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	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	0.705	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.5 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	164	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mwr	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us60006aci	Id of event.
Event Code	60006aci	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us60006aci,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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