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Minor earthquake: M3.6 quake has struck near Lo Prado in Chile

Posted by admin on July 5, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location -33.3795S, -70.7679WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Lo Prado in Chile. Exact location of event, longitude -70.7679 West, latitude -33.3795 South, depth = 77.06 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/07/15 / 2015-07-05 09:39:20 / July 5, 2015 @ 9:39 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 77.06 km (48 miles). The 3.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:39:20 / 5:39 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us10002nk8. Event ids that are associated: us10002nk8.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Viña del Mar, San Antonio, Cartagena (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 14 km (9 miles) from Santiago (c. 4 837 300 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Puente Alto (c. 510 400 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Viña del Mar (c. 294 600 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from San Bernardo (c. 249 900 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from La Pintana (c. 201 200 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Quilpué (c. 130 300 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 8 km NNW of Lo Prado, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -70.7679° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -33.3795° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 77.06 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km NNW of Lo Prado, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-05 09:39:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-05 21:17:34 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 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 199 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 0.027 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.46 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 59 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 us10002nk8 Id of event.
Event Code 10002nk8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10002nk8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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