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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near San Antonio in Chile


Earthquake location -33.6817S, -72.3505WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 68 kilometers (42 miles) from San Antonio in Chile on Tuesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 34.52 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us20003fk2. Unique identifier: us20003fk2. Exact time and date of earthquake 02/09/15 / 2015-09-02 00:22:37 / September 2, 2015 @ 12:22 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:22:37 / 7:22 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -72.3505° West, latitude -33.6817° South, depth = 34.52 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cartagena, San Antonio (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from San Antonio (c. 85 700 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Cartagena (c. 16 900 pop).

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 earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every 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.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 68 km W of San Antonio, 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 -72.3505° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -33.6817° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 34.52 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 68km W 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 2015-09-02 00:22:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-02 00:43:55 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 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 285 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 0.614 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 77 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 us20003fk2 Id of event.
Event Code 20003fk2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003fk2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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