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Strong earthquake 6.3 mag, 90 km NW of Valparaiso, Chile

Posted by admin on September 18, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location -32.4085S, -72.2351WA earthquake with magnitude 6.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 90 kilometers (56 miles) from Valparaiso in Chile. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20003l5d. Id of event: us20003l5d. Exact location of earthquake, -72.2351° West, -32.4085° South, depth 8.65 km. The temblor was reported at 04:10:44 / 4:10 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 8.65 km (5 miles). Global time and date of event 18/09/15 / 2015-09-18 09:10:44 / September 18, 2015 @ 9:10 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Limache, Villa Alemana, Quillota (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 94 km (58 miles) from Viña del Mar (c. 294 600 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Valparaíso (c. 282 400 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Quilpué (c. 130 300 pop), 107 km (67 miles) from Villa Alemana (c. 97 300 pop), 106 km (66 miles) from Quillota (c. 67 800 pop), 104 km (65 miles) from Hacienda La Calera (c. 49 100 pop), 113 km (70 miles) from Limache (c. 35 900 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from La Ligua (c. 24 900 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been nineteen, in the last 10 days thirty-seven, in the past 30 days thirty-seven and in the last 365 days fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. Each year there are an estimated 135 quakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 90 km NW of Valparaiso, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -72.2351° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -32.4085° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.65 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 90km NW of Valparaiso, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-09-18 09:10:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-18 09:33:54 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 2.2 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.17 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 611 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 0.793 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.48 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 70 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwp The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us20003l5d Id of event.
Event Code 20003l5d An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003l5d, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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