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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Curico in Chile


Earthquake location -35.0861S, -70.7434WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Curico in Chile. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 107.84 km (67 miles). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:17:28 / 8:17 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 107.84 km, -70.7434° West, -35.0861° South. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/08/15 / 2015-08-04 00:17:28 / August 4, 2015 @ 12:17 am. Id of earthquake: us10002xmy. Event ids that are associated: us10002xmy.

Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Talca, San Clemente, San Vicente. The epicenter was 91 km (57 miles) from Talca (c. 197 500 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Curicó (c. 102 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Rengo (c. 38 100 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Santa Cruz (c. 33 300 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Molina (c. 28 800 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from San Vicente (c. 22 600 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 46 km ESE of Curico, Chile. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -70.7434° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -35.0861° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 107.84 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 46km ESE of Curico, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-08-04 00:17:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-04 00:51:04 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 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 284 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 0.294 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 55 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 us10002xmy Id of event.
Event Code 10002xmy An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10002xmy, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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