Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Earthquake breaking news, Moderate World Earthquakes Magnitude 5–5.9

Moderate earthquake: M5.1 quake has struck near Vallenar in Chile


Earthquake location -28.4583S, -71.6379WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) strikes 87 kilometers (54 miles) from Vallenar in Chile on Tuesday. Exact time and date of earthquake 26/11/19 / 2019-11-26 09:31:45 / November 26, 2019 @ 9:31 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us70006d4n. Ids that are associated to the event: us70006d4n. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 04:31:45 / 4:31 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -71.6379 West, latitude -28.4583 South, depth = 23.22 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 23.22 km (14 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Vallenar. The epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Vallenar (c. 44 900 pop).

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 four and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world.

Did you feel it?

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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 87 km W of Vallenar, Chile. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Copyright © 2019 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.6379° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -28.4583° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 23.22 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 87km W of Vallenar, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-11-26 09:31:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-26 09:46:42 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 400 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 0.557 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.38 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 101 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 us70006d4n Id of event.
Event Code 70006d4n An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006d4n, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply