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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Taltal in Chile


Earthquake location -25.4584S, -69.4466WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 104 km E of Taltal, Chile (65 miles). The temblor was picked up at 18:54:11 / 6:54 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 116.6 km (72 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -69.4466 West, latitude -25.4584 South, depth = 116.6 km. Global time and date of event 21/01/21 / 2021-01-21 18:54:11 / January 21, 2021 @ 6:54 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us7000d26i. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000d26i. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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 fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 104 km E of Taltal, Chile. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -69.4466° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -25.4584° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 116.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 104 km E 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 2021-01-21 18:54:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-01-21 19:27:18 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 298 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 1.2 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 80 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 us7000d26i Id of event.
Event Code 7000d26i An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000d26i, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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