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Light earthquake: M4 quake has struck near Lautaro in Chile

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A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) strikes 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Lautaro in Chile on Saturday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us100034de. Event ids that are associated: us100034de. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -72.5974 West, latitude -38.5556 South, depth = 46.87 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 46.87 km (29 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 22/08/15 / 2015-08-22 22:41:24 / August 22, 2015 @ 10:41 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 18:41:24 / 6:41 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Villarrica, Angol, Collipulli (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 20 km (13 miles) from Temuco (c. 238 100 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Angol (c. 44 900 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Villarrica (c. 31 600 pop), 43 km (26 miles) from Victoria (c. 24 600 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Lautaro (c. 21 600 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Nueva Imperial (c. 18 800 pop). 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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 13 km WSW of Lautaro, Chile.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-72.5974° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-38.5556° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	46.87 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	13km WSW of Lautaro, Chile	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-08-22 22:41:24	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-08-23 22:52:33	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	247	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	0.659	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.94 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	173	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	us100034de	Id of event.
Event Code	100034de	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us100034de,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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