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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag strikes near Iquique in Chile


Earthquake location -20.1736S, -69.1803WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 100 kilometers (62 miles) from Iquique in Chile. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/05/20 / 2020-05-12 23:14:36 / May 12, 2020 @ 11:14 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -69.1803 West, latitude -20.1736 South, depth = 107.08 km. The temblor was picked up at 19:14:36 / 7:14 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us70009f2d. Ids that are associated to the event: us70009f2d. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 107.08 km (67 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Iquique (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 100 km (62 miles) from Iquique (c. 227 500 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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. 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: 100 km E of Iquique, Chile.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -69.1803° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -20.1736° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 107.08 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 100km E 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 2020-05-12 23:14:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-12 23:40:46 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 13 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.3 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 374 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 0.041 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.62 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 65 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 us70009f2d Id of event.
Event Code 70009f2d An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70009f2d, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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