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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag has occurred near Illapel in Chile

Posted by admin on September 25, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location -31.5242S, -71.9643WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 76 kilometers (47 miles) from Illapel in Chile. Global time and date of event 25/09/15 / 2015-09-25 11:47:06 / September 25, 2015 @ 11:47 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us20003p0f. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20003p0f. Exact location of event, longitude -71.9643 West, latitude -31.5242 South, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:47:06 / 6:47 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Salamanca, Illapel. Epicenter of the earthquake was 76 km (47 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop), 99 km (61 miles) from Salamanca (c. 13 300 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been eleven, in the last 10 days one hundred and ninety-one, in the past 30 days one hundred and ninety-one and in the last 365 days two hundred and six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 76 km W of Illapel, Chile.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.9643° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -31.5242° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 76km 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 2015-09-25 11:47:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-25 13:44:06 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 354 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 0.884 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.64 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 76 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 us20003p0f Id of event.
Event Code 20003p0f An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003p0f, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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