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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 90 km W of Illapel, Chile

Posted by admin on September 19, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location -31.7271S, -72.1122WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 90 kilometers (56 miles) from Illapel in Chile. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -72.1122 West, latitude -31.7271 South, depth = 16.29 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 16.29 km (10 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/09/15 / 2015-09-19 15:02:17 / September 19, 2015 @ 3:02 pm. The temblor was detected at 10:02:17 / 10:02 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us20003lvw. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20003lvw.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Illapel (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 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 nineteen, in the last 10 days ninety-one, in the past 30 days ninety-one and in the last 365 days one hundred and six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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 W of Illapel, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -72.1122° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -31.7271° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16.29 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 90km W 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 2015-09-19 15:02:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-19 17:04:52 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 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 312 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 1.126 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.86 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 196 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us20003lvw Id of event.
Event Code 20003lvw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003lvw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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