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Light earthquake: M4.9 quake has struck near Illapel in Chile

Posted by admin on September 17, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location -31.1472S, -71.7444WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 76 kilometers (47 miles) from Illapel in Chile. Exact time and date of earthquake 17/09/15 / 2015-09-17 02:44:29 / September 17, 2015 @ 2:44 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us20003kdt. Event ids that are associated: us20003kdt. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -71.7444 West, latitude -31.1472 South, depth = 27.16 km. The temblor was reported at 23:44:29 / 11:44 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 27.16 km (17 miles).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Salamanca, Monte Patria, Ovalle. Epicenter of the event was 80 km (50 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Monte Patria (c. 13 900 pop), 102 km (63 miles) from Salamanca (c. 13 300 pop).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 76 km NW of Illapel, Chile.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.7444° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -31.1472° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 27.16 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 76km NW of Illapel, 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 02:44:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-17 05:49:03 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 369 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 0.481 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 156 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 us20003kdt Id of event.
Event Code 20003kdt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003kdt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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