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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 24 km W of La Ligua, Chile

Posted by admin on November 16, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location -32.4386S, -71.4912WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from La Ligua in Chile. Global time and date of event 16/11/20 / 2020-11-16 14:22:46 / November 16, 2020 @ 2:22 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -71.4912° West, -32.4386° South, depth 67.98 km. The temblor was picked up at 14:22:46 / 2:22 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us7000cfna. Event ids that are associated: us7000cfna. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 67.98 km (42 miles).

Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 65 km (41 miles) from Viña del Mar (c. 294 600 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Valparaíso (c. 282 400 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Quilpué (c. 130 300 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Villa Alemana (c. 97 300 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Quillota (c. 67 800 pop), 80 km (49 miles) from San Felipe (c. 59 300 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Salamanca, San Felipe, Villa Alemana.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 24 km W of La Ligua, Chile. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.4912° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -32.4386° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 67.98 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24 km W of La Ligua, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-11-16 14:22:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-11-16 15:24:21 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 272 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 0.589 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.3 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 164 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000cfna Id of event.
Event Code 7000cfna An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000cfna, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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