Earthquake: M 4.7 quake strikes near Melipilla in Chile

A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (mg/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Melipilla in Chile. The temblor was reported at 02:19:45 / 2:19 am (local time epicenter) at a depth of 81.42 km (51 miles). Global time of event 2015-01-15 05:19:45 UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude -71.1744 West, latitude -33.6362 South, depth 81.42 km.

Close countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). The epicenter was 53 km (33 miles) from Santiago (c. 4 837 300 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Puente Alto (c. 510 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Viña del Mar (c. 294 600 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Valparaíso (c. 282 400 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from San Bernardo (c. 249 900 pop). Nearest city, towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hacienda La Calera, Llaillay, Rengo.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-71.1744° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-33.6362° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	81.42 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	8km NNE of Melipilla, Chile	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-01-15 05:19:45	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-01-15 05:29:37	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-180	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	4	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.1	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		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	341	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	0.377	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.75 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	100	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	usc000tfxr	Id of event.
Event Code	c000tfxr	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	usc000tfxr	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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