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Minor earthquake 3.9 mag, 52 km E of Vallenar, Chile

Posted by admin on September 4, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location -28.605S, -70.224WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 52 kilometers (32 miles) from Vallenar in Chile. The epicenter was at a depth of 96.1 km (60 miles). The temblor was reported at 00:12:00 / 12:12 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us20003fc0. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20003fc0. Exact location of event, depth 96.1 km, -70.224° West, -28.605° South. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 15/08/15 / 2015-08-15 04:12:00 / August 15, 2015 @ 4:12 am.

Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 52 km (33 miles) from Vallenar (c. 44 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Vallenar (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 52 km E of Vallenar, Chile.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -70.224° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -28.605° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 96.1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 52km E of Vallenar, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-08-15 04:12:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-04 00:16:50 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 234 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 1.27 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 us20003fc0 Id of event.
Event Code 20003fc0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003fc0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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