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Moderate earthquake 5.2 mag, 86 km ENE of Iquique, Chile


Earthquake location -19.9839S, -69.3564WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 86 kilometers (53 miles) from Iquique in Chile. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 108.04 km (67 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -69.3564 West, latitude -19.9839 South, depth = 108.04 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us60008eru. Unique identifier: us60008eru. The temblor was detected at 22:08:02 / 10:08 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/03/20 / 2020-03-13 02:08:02 / March 13, 2020 @ 2:08 am.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Iquique (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 86 km (53 miles) from Iquique (c. 227 500 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 86 km ENE of Iquique, Chile. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -69.3564° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -19.9839° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 108.04 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 86km ENE of Iquique, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-03-13 02:08:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-03-13 02:32:15 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 14 The total number of felt reports
CDI 6 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 424 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 0.246 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.11 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 75 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us60008eru Id of event.
Event Code 60008eru An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60008eru, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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