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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 95 km WNW of La Ligua, Chile

Posted by admin on September 20, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location -32.2516S, -72.2131WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 95 km WNW of La Ligua, Chile (59 miles). The temblor was reported at 19:48:17 / 7:48 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -72.2131 West, latitude -32.2516 South, depth = 17.54 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 17.54 km (11 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 20/09/15 / 2015-09-20 00:48:17 / September 20, 2015 @ 12:48 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20003m26. Id of event: us20003m26. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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

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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: 95 km WNW of La Ligua, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -72.2131° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -32.2516° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 17.54 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 95km WNW of La Ligua, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-09-20 00:48:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-20 03:00:42 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 0.909 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 194 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 us20003m26 Id of event.
Event Code 20003m26 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003m26, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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