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Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag strikes near Illapel in Chile

Posted by admin on September 17, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location -31.3909S, -71.9115WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 75 kilometers (47 miles) from Illapel in Chile. 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 05:40:58 / September 17, 2015 @ 5:40 am UTC/GMT. Event id: us20003khm. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20003khm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.35 km (6 miles). The temblor was picked up at 00:40:58 / 12:40 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -71.9115° West, latitude -31.3909° South, depth = 9.35 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Salamanca, Illapel (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Salamanca (c. 13 300 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-eight, in the last 10 days twenty-eight, in the past 30 days twenty-eight and in the last 365 days fourty-two 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 75 km WNW of Illapel, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.9115° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -31.3909° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 75km WNW 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 05:40:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-17 06:01:09 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 2.5 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 416 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 0.753 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 75 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 us20003khm Id of event.
Event Code 20003khm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003khm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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