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Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag has occurred near Coquimbo in Chile

Posted by admin on September 14, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location -29.8319S, -71.4128WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Coquimbo in Chile. Exact location of earthquake, -71.4128° West, -29.8319° South, depth 23.13 km. The temblor was reported at 00:19:40 / 12:19 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 23.13 km (14 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us20003j8r. Ids that are associated to the event: us20003j8r. Global time and date of event 14/09/15 / 2015-09-14 03:19:40 / September 14, 2015 @ 3:19 am UTC/GMT.

Earthquake epicenter was 15 km (9 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from La Serena (c. 154 500 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Vicuña (c. 13 500 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Vicuña, La Serena, Coquimbo (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. 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 one, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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: 15 km NNW of Coquimbo, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.4128° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -29.8319° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 23.13 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km NNW of Coquimbo, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-09-14 03:19:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-14 03:44:09 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -180 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 222 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 0.631 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.12 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 132 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 us20003j8r Id of event.
Event Code 20003j8r An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003j8r, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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