Light earthquake, 4.7 mag strikes near La Ligua in Chile

A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes 70 kilometers (43 miles) from La Ligua in Chile on Thursday. Id of earthquake: us20003kx6. Event ids that are associated: us20003kx6. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 16.57 km (10 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 17/09/15 / 2015-09-17 20:24:35 / September 17, 2015 @ 8:24 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 15:24:35 / 3:24 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -71.964 West, latitude -32.3205 South, depth = 16.57 km.

Event epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Viña del Mar (c. 294 600 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Valparaíso (c. 282 400 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Quilpué (c. 130 300 pop), 97 km (61 miles) from Villa Alemana (c. 97 300 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Quillota (c. 67 800 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Hacienda La Calera (c. 49 100 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from La Ligua (c. 24 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Villa Alemana, Quilpué, Quillota (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-two, in the last 10 days thirty-two, in the past 30 days thirty-two and in the last 365 days fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 70 km WNW of La Ligua, Chile.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-71.964° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-32.3205° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	16.57 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	70km WNW of La Ligua, Chile	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-09-17 20:24:35	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-09-17 21:36:35	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		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	340	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	0.752	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.09 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	92	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	us20003kx6	Id of event.
Event Code	20003kx6	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20003kx6,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

4.7 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

-71.964° West

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

-32.3205° South

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

16.57 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

70km WNW of La Ligua, Chile

Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.

Time

2015-09-17 20:24:35

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2015-09-17 21:36:35

Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT

Timezone offset

-300

Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.

Felt

The total number of felt reports

CDI

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

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

340

A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.

Network

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

0.752

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

1.09 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

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us20003kx6

Id of event.

Event Code

20003kx6

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us20003kx6,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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