Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Earthquake breaking news, Minor World Earthquakes Magnitude -3.9

Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag strikes near Iquique in Chile


Earthquake location -20.3564S, -70.032WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) strikes 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Iquique in Chile on Friday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/09/20 / 2020-09-25 00:53:33 / September 25, 2020 @ 12:53 am. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:53:33 / 12:53 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 84.27 km, -70.032° West, -20.3564° South. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 84.27 km (52 miles). Event id: us6000c0zl. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000c0zl.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Iquique. Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 19 km (12 miles) from Iquique (c. 227 500 pop).

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 two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days sixty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

Did you feel it?

What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 20 km SE of Iquique, Chile.

Copyright © 2020 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -70.032° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -20.3564° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 84.27 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20 km SE 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 2020-09-25 00:53:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-09-25 03:27:36 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 168 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 0.25 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.48 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 137 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 us6000c0zl Id of event.
Event Code 6000c0zl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000c0zl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply