Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag was detected near Putre in Chile

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Putre in Chile. The 5.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:06:51 / 10:06 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70008se7. Id of event: us70008se7. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 09/04/20 / 2020-04-09 14:06:51 / April 9, 2020 @ 2:06 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 152.75 km (95 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -69.5807° West, -18.2029° South, depth 152.75 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Tacna (c. 280 100 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Arica (c. 186 000 pop). Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop), Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Arica, Tacna (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fourty-two 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.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 2 km WSW of Putre, Chile.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-69.5807° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-18.2029° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	152.75 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	2km WSW 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	2020-04-09 14:06:51	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-04-09 14:21:54	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	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	0.617	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.16 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	73	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	us70008se7	Id of event.
Event Code	70008se7	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70008se7,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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