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Minor earthquake, 3.7 mag has occurred near Iquique in Chile


Earthquake location -20.0698S, -70.2124WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Iquique in Chile. The 3.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:14:27 / 9:14 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 57.67 km, -70.2124° West, -20.0698° South. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 57.67 km (36 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/02/21 / 2021-02-06 21:14:27 / February 6, 2021 @ 9:14 pm. Id of earthquake: us6000df7m. Event ids that are associated: us6000df7m.

Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 18 km (11 miles) from Iquique (c. 227 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Iquique (min 5000 pop).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 17 km NNW of Iquique, Chile.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -70.2124° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -20.0698° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 57.67 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17 km NNW 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 2021-02-06 21:14:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-02-07 05:47:39 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 8 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.3 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 213 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 0.494 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.09 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 170 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 us6000df7m Id of event.
Event Code 6000df7m An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000df7m, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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