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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Curicó in Chile


Earthquake location -35.0639S, -71.1458WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Curicó in Chile on Wednesday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 03/03/21 / 2021-03-03 21:50:35 / March 3, 2021 @ 9:50 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000df9q. Id of event: us7000df9q. Exact location, longitude -71.1458° West, latitude -35.0639° South, depth = 103.31 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 103.31 km (64 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 21:50:35 / 9:50 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Javier, Rengo, San Vicente (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 61 km (38 miles) from Talca (c. 197 500 pop), 12 km (8 miles) from Curicó (c. 102 400 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Rengo (c. 38 100 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Santa Cruz (c. 33 300 pop), 14 km (8 miles) from Molina (c. 28 800 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from San Vicente (c. 22 600 pop). Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 12 km SE of Curicó, Chile.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.1458° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -35.0639° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 103.31 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12 km SE of Curicó, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2021-03-03 21:50:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-03-03 22:01:12 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 0.403 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.63 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 85 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 us7000df9q Id of event.
Event Code 7000df9q An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000df9q, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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