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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 104 km ESE of Iquique, Chile


Earthquake location -20.6072S, -69.2357WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 104 km ESE of Iquique, Chile (65 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 10/12/20 / 2020-12-10 13:05:24 / December 10, 2020 @ 1:05 pm UTC/GMT. Event id: us7000cpqw. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000cpqw. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 115.15 km (72 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -69.2357 West, latitude -20.6072 South, depth = 115.15 km. The temblor was reported at 13:05:24 / 1:05 pm (local time epicenter). 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 five, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days ninety earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 ESE of Iquique, Chile. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -69.2357° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -20.6072° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 115.15 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 104 km ESE 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 2020-12-10 13:05:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-12-10 14:09:48 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 312 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 0.47 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.11 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 63 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 us7000cpqw Id of event.
Event Code 7000cpqw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000cpqw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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