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Minor earthquake 3.7 mag, 63 km S of Iquique, Chile


Earthquake location -20.7828S, -70.1693WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 63 kilometers (39 miles) from Iquique in Chile. Event id: us6000c67v. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000c67v. Exact location, longitude -70.1693° West, latitude -20.7828° South, depth = 44.53 km. The 3.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:32:48 / 11:32 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 44.53 km (28 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/10/20 / 2020-10-06 11:32:48 / October 6, 2020 @ 11:32 am.

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. Earthquake epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from Iquique (c. 227 500 pop).

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

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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. 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: 63 km S of Iquique, Chile.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -70.1693° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -20.7828° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 44.53 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 63 km S 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 2020-10-06 11:32:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-10-06 21:03:49 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 2.5 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 211 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 0.216 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.63 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 172 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 us6000c67v Id of event.
Event Code 6000c67v An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000c67v, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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