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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag has occurred near Valparaiso in Chile

Posted by admin on May 5, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location -33.0919S, -72.1373WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 47 kilometers (29 miles) from Valparaiso in Chile. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10008k6x. Id of event: us10008k6x. Exact location of event, depth 17.6 km, -72.1373° West, -33.0919° South. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/04/17 / 2017-04-24 04:33:49 / April 24, 2017 @ 4:33 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 17.6 km (11 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 23:33:49 / 11:33 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Antonio, Villa Alemana, Cartagena (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 55 km (34 miles) from Viña del Mar (c. 294 600 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Valparaíso (c. 282 400 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Quilpué (c. 130 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Villa Alemana (c. 97 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from San Antonio (c. 85 700 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been ninety-two, in the last 10 days one hundred and three, in the past 30 days one hundred and three and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city 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: 47 km W of Valparaiso, Chile.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -72.1373° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -33.0919° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 17.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 47km W of Valparaiso, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-04-24 04:33:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-05-05 15:39:50 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 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 121 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 0.425 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.58 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 207 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 us10008k6x Id of event.
Event Code 10008k6x An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008k6x, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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