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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Constitucion in Chile


Earthquake location -35.5939S, -73.2933WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 84 kilometers (52 miles) from Constitucion in Chile. All ids that are associated to the event: us70007s8j. Unique identifier: us70007s8j. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 18/02/20 / 2020-02-18 06:16:55 / February 18, 2020 @ 6:16 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was reported at 01:16:55 / 1:16 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -73.2933° West, -35.5939° South, depth 10 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Constitución (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Event epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from Constitución (c. 37 900 pop).

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

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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: 84 km WSW of Constitucion, Chile. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -73.2933° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -35.5939° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 84km 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 2020-02-18 06:16:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-18 09:19:43 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 271 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 1.154 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.67 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 190 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 us70007s8j Id of event.
Event Code 70007s8j An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70007s8j, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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