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Moderate earthquake 5.5 mag, 15 km WSW of Iquique, Chile


Earthquake location -20.2958S, -70.2645WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Iquique in Chile. Exact location of event, longitude -70.2645 West, latitude -20.2958 South, depth = 34.44 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us20003001. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20003001. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/07/15 / 2015-07-24 23:14:38 / July 24, 2015 @ 11:14 pm. The 5.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:14:38 / 7:14 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 34.44 km (21 miles).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 16 km (10 miles) from Iquique (c. 227 500 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Iquique. Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 15 km WSW of Iquique, Chile.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -70.2645° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -20.2958° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 34.44 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km WSW of Iquique, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-24 23:14:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-24 23:39:30 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.99 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 465 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 0.127 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 89 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 us20003001 Id of event.
Event Code 20003001 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003001, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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