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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Taltal in Chile

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Earthquake location -25.871S, -70.9409WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 68 kilometers (42 miles) from Taltal in Chile. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/12/20 / 2020-12-02 15:38:19 / December 2, 2020 @ 3:38 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -70.9409 West, latitude -25.871 South, depth = 20.71 km. Event id: us7000cm4k. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000cm4k. The temblor was reported at 15:38:19 / 3:38 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 20.71 km (13 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the event was 69 km (43 miles) from Taltal (c. 10 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Taltal (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 68 km SW of Taltal, Chile.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -70.9409° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -25.871° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 20.71 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 68 km SW of Taltal, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-12-02 15:38:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-12-02 22:04:27 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 284 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 0.413 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 173 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000cm4k Id of event.
Event Code 7000cm4k An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000cm4k, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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