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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag was detected near San Antonio in Chile

Posted by admin on July 22, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location -33.855S, -72.2448WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 64 kilometers (40 miles) from San Antonio in Chile. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:37:25 / 3:37 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us20002z5y. Event ids that are associated: us20002z5y. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 21.28 km (13 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 22/07/15 / 2015-07-22 08:37:25 / July 22, 2015 @ 8:37 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -72.2448° West, -33.855° South, depth 21.28 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) from San Antonio (c. 85 700 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Cartagena (c. 16 900 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Cartagena, San Antonio.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 64 km WSW of San Antonio, Chile.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -72.2448° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -33.855° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 21.28 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 64km WSW of San Antonio, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-22 08:37:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-22 16:40:27 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 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 259 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 0.827 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 194 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us20002z5y Id of event.
Event Code 20002z5y An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20002z5y, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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