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Minor earthquake 3.7 mag, 63 km W of Illapel, Chile

Posted by admin on September 25, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location -31.545S, -71.822WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) strikes 63 kilometers (39 miles) from Illapel in Chile on Wednesday. The temblor was picked up at 12:25:12 / 12:25 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us20003nc8. Event ids that are associated: us20003nc8. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 37.2 km (23 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -71.822° West, -31.545° South, depth 37.2 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/09/15 / 2015-09-23 15:25:12 / September 23, 2015 @ 3:25 pm.

Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 63 km (39 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Salamanca (c. 13 300 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Salamanca, Illapel.

In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-six, in the last 10 days one hundred and eighty-one, in the past 30 days one hundred and eighty-one and in the last 365 days one hundred and ninety-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor 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. 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: 63 km W of Illapel, Chile.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.822° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -31.545° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 37.2 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 63km 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 2015-09-23 15:25:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-25 00:24:49 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -180 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 211 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.92 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 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 us20003nc8 Id of event.
Event Code 20003nc8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003nc8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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