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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Illapel in Chile

Posted by admin on October 4, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location -31.8053S, -72.0122WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 82 kilometers (51 miles) from Illapel in Chile. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us10003j58. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10003j58. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/09/15 / 2015-09-17 08:41:47 / September 17, 2015 @ 8:41 am. The temblor was detected at 03:41:47 / 3:41 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -72.0122° West, -31.8053° South, depth 11.1 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 11.1 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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 Illapel. Event epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two hundred and one, in the last 10 days two hundred and one, in the past 30 days two hundred and one and in the last 365 days two hundred and nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 82 km WSW of Illapel, Chile.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -72.0122° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -31.8053° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 82km WSW 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 2015-09-17 08:41:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-10-04 13:13:55 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 298 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 1.173 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 145 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 us10003j58 Id of event.
Event Code 10003j58 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003j58, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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