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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 25 km SE of Los Andes, Chile


Earthquake location -33.013S, -70.4302WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Los Andes in Chile on Friday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 100.44 km, -70.4302° West, -33.013° South. Global time and date of event 22/05/20 / 2020-05-22 12:18:03 / May 22, 2020 @ 12:18 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us70009nbs. Unique identifier: us70009nbs. The temblor was detected at 12:18:03 / 12:18 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 100.44 km (62 miles).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 53 km (33 miles) from Santiago (c. 4 837 300 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Puente Alto (c. 510 400 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from San Bernardo (c. 249 900 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from La Pintana (c. 201 200 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Lo Prado (c. 104 300 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Villa Alemana (c. 97 300 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Paine, El Monte, Villa Alemana. Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 25 km SE of Los Andes, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -70.4302° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -33.013° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 100.44 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 25 km SE of Los Andes, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-05-22 12:18:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-30 12:24:27 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 284 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 0.243 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.5 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 83 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 us70009nbs Id of event.
Event Code 70009nbs An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70009nbs, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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