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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Coihueco in Chile

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Coihueco in Chile on Friday. Unique identifier: us10003jqi. Ids that are associated to the event: us10003jqi. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 101.75 km (63 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -71.674 West, latitude -36.6225 South, depth = 101.75 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 05:28:06 / 5:28 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/10/15 / 2015-10-02 08:28:06 / October 2, 2015 @ 8:28 am.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 38 km (24 miles) from Chillán (c. 150 400 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Linares (c. 69 500 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from San Carlos (c. 31 500 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Cauquenes (c. 31 400 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Parral (c. 26 900 pop), 80 km (49 miles) from Cabrero (c. 18 300 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Bulnes (c. 12 700 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yumbel, Cauquenes, Linares.

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eight 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.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 14 km E of Coihueco, Chile.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-71.674° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-36.6225° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	101.75 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	14km E of Coihueco, Chile	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-10-02 08:28:06	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-10-02 08:45:31	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	326	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	0.882	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.83 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	157	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	us10003jqi	Id of event.
Event Code	10003jqi	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10003jqi,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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