Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag was detected near Talca in Chile

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Talca in Chile. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 63.2 km (39 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 12:29:57 / 12:29 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us20002xsq. Unique identifier: us20002xsq. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/07/15 / 2015-07-15 16:29:57 / July 15, 2015 @ 4:29 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -71.69 West, latitude -35.347 South, depth = 63.2 km.

Epicenter of the event was 9 km (6 miles) from Talca (c. 197 500 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Curicó (c. 102 400 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Linares (c. 69 500 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Constitución (c. 37 900 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Santa Cruz (c. 33 300 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Molina (c. 28 800 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Santa Cruz, Teno, Longaví. Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).

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 eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 9 km NNW of Talca, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-71.69° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-35.347° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	63.2 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9km NNW of Talca, Chile	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-07-15 16:29:57	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-07-15 22:06:32	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2	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		The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance		Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.4 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap		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	us20002xsq	Id of event.
Event Code	20002xsq	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20002xsq,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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