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Minor earthquake, 3.7 mag has occurred near Iquique in Chile

Posted by admin on August 31, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location -20.128S, -70.133WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Iquique in Chile. The temblor was detected at 03:02:01 / 3:02 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -70.133 West, latitude -20.128 South, depth = 48 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 48 km (30 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us20003f82. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20003f82. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 31/08/15 / 2015-08-31 07:02:01 / August 31, 2015 @ 7:02 am.

Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Iquique (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 10 km (6 miles) from Iquique (c. 227 500 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 10 km N of Iquique, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -70.133° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -20.128° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 48 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km N 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 2015-08-31 07:02:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-31 22:24:14 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 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 211 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 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 us20003f82 Id of event.
Event Code 20003f82 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003f82, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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