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Moderate earthquake, 5.9 mag strikes near Iquique in Chile


Earthquake location -20.2353S, -70.1399WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Iquique in Chile. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000aq5p. Id of event: us7000aq5p. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/07/20 / 2020-07-17 05:40:36 / July 17, 2020 @ 5:40 am. The temblor was picked up at 05:40:36 / 5:40 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 73.82 km, -70.1399° West, -20.2353° South. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 73.82 km (46 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Iquique (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 2 km (1 miles) from Iquique (c. 227 500 pop).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 2 km SSE of Iquique, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -70.1399° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -20.2353° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 73.82 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2 km SSE 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 2020-07-17 05:40:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-17 06:00:23 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 7 The total number of felt reports
CDI 6.7 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.758 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 540 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 0.635 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.22 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 32 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 us7000aq5p Id of event.
Event Code 7000aq5p An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000aq5p, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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