Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag has occurred near La Tirana in Chile

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 33 kilometers (21 miles) from La Tirana in Chile. The temblor was picked up at 05:34:04 / 5:34 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000nit2. Unique identifier: us6000nit2. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/08/24 / 2024-08-08 05:34:04 / August 8, 2024 @ 5:34 am. Exact location of event, depth 53.414 km, -69.5411° West, -20.6188° South. The epicenter was at a depth of 53.414 km (33 miles).

The epicenter was 76 km (48 miles) from Iquique (c. 227 500 pop). Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Iquique.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 33 km SSE of La Tirana, Chile. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-69.5411° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-20.6188° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	53.414 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	33 km SSE of La Tirana, Chile	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-08-08 05:34:04	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-08 06:05:17	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.5	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	223	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	11	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	0.39 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	114	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	us6000nit2	Id of event.
Event Code	6000nit2	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000nit2,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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