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Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag was detected near Iquique in Chile


Earthquake location -19.9889S, -70.1098WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Iquique in Chile. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 44.27 km (28 miles). Event id: us7000abls. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000abls. The temblor was detected at 07:30:28 / 7:30 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -70.1098° West, latitude -19.9889° South, depth = 44.27 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/06/20 / 2020-06-25 07:30:28 / June 25, 2020 @ 7:30 am.

The epicenter was 26 km (16 miles) from Iquique (c. 227 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Iquique.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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 N of Iquique, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -70.1098° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -19.9889° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 44.27 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 25 km N 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 2020-06-25 07:30:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-25 21:03:30 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 6 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.5 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 190 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 0.483 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 167 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000abls Id of event.
Event Code 7000abls An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000abls, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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