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Minor earthquake 3.9 mag, 72 km NW of Illapel, Chile

Posted by admin on September 26, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location -31.2632S, -71.7982WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) strikes 72 kilometers (45 miles) from Illapel in Chile on Saturday. Global time and date of event 26/09/15 / 2015-09-26 21:18:04 / September 26, 2015 @ 9:18 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 18:18:04 / 6:18 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -71.7982° West, -31.2632° South, depth 29.05 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 29.05 km (18 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20003pdn. Id of event: us20003pdn.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Illapel (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 72 km (45 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days one hundred and eighty-six, in the past 30 days one hundred and eighty-six and in the last 365 days two hundred and one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 72 km NW of Illapel, Chile. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.7982° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -31.2632° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 29.05 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 72km NW 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 2015-09-26 21:18:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-26 21:40:44 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -180 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 234 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 0.604 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 125 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 us20003pdn Id of event.
Event Code 20003pdn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003pdn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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