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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 87 km WSW of Coquimbo, Chile

Posted by admin on September 19, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location -30.2198S, -72.1925WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 87 kilometers (54 miles) from Coquimbo in Chile. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/09/15 / 2015-09-19 20:39:39 / September 19, 2015 @ 8:39 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -72.1925 West, latitude -30.2198 South, depth = 6.98 km. The temblor was picked up at 15:39:39 / 3:39 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us20003lzi. Ids that are associated to the event: us20003lzi. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 6.98 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquake epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Coquimbo (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).

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

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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. 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: 87 km WSW of Coquimbo, Chile.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -72.1925° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -30.2198° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.98 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 87km WSW 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 2015-09-19 20:39:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-19 21:30:57 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 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 284 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 0.66 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.06 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 93 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 us20003lzi Id of event.
Event Code 20003lzi An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003lzi, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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