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Light earthquake: M4.8 quake has struck near Calama in Chile


Earthquake location -21.7993S, -68.4828WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 85 kilometers (53 miles) from Calama in Chile. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 129.17 km (80 miles) below the earth’s surface. 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: us6000bzmn. Id of event: us6000bzmn. The temblor was detected at 11:53:06 / 11:53 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -68.4828° West, -21.7993° South, depth 129.17 km. Global time and date of event 22/09/20 / 2020-09-22 11:53:06 / September 22, 2020 @ 11:53 am UTC/GMT.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Calama (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 86 km (54 miles) from Calama (c. 143 100 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days eighty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. 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: 85 km NNE of Calama, Chile.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.4828° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -21.7993° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 129.17 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 85 km NNE of Calama, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-09-22 11:53:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-09-22 12:10:20 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 354 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 0.705 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.08 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 41 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 us6000bzmn Id of event.
Event Code 6000bzmn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000bzmn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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