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Moderate earthquake, 5.4 mag strikes near Constitucion in Chile


Earthquake location -35.5097S, -73.1865WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 72 kilometers (45 miles) from Constitucion in Chile. Unique identifier: us20002y48. Ids that are associated to the event: us20002y48. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -73.1865 West, latitude -35.5097 South, depth = 10 km. The temblor was detected at 06:11:22 / 6:11 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/07/15 / 2015-07-17 11:11:22 / July 17, 2015 @ 11:11 am.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Event epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) from Constitución (c. 37 900 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Cauquenes (c. 31 400 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cauquenes, Constitución (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 72 km WSW of Constitucion, Chile.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -73.1865° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -35.5097° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 72km WSW of Constitucion, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-17 11:11:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-17 11:43:06 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.6 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 449 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 1.142 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 132 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 us20002y48 Id of event.
Event Code 20002y48 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20002y48, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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