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Light earthquake 4.8 mag, 135 km WSW of Coquimbo, Chile

Posted by admin on October 5, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location -30.4136S, -72.6461WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) strikes 135 km WSW of Coquimbo, Chile (84 miles) on Saturday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 12.77 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 06:57:20 / 6:57 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us20003lul. Unique identifier: us20003lul. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/09/15 / 2015-09-19 11:57:20 / September 19, 2015 @ 11:57 am. Exact location of event, depth 12.77 km, -72.6461° West, -30.4136° South. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been eighty, in the last 10 days one hundred and fourteen, in the past 30 days one hundred and fourteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. 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: 135 km WSW of Coquimbo, Chile.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -72.6461° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -30.4136° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.77 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 135km WSW of Coquimbo, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-09-19 11:57:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-10-05 09:05:20 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 355 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 0.91 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 120 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 us20003lul Id of event.
Event Code 20003lul An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003lul, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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