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

Posted by admin on October 5, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location -29.8718S, -71.7473WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Coquimbo in Chile. The temblor was detected at 16:54:22 / 4:54 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us20003kyy. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20003kyy. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 32.19 km (20 miles). Exact location of event, depth 32.19 km, -71.7473° West, -29.8718° South. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/09/15 / 2015-09-17 21:54:22 / September 17, 2015 @ 9:54 pm.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was La Serena, Coquimbo (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 40 km (25 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from La Serena (c. 154 500 pop). Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been ninety-two, in the last 10 days ninety-three, in the past 30 days ninety-eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 40 km WNW of Coquimbo, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.7473° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -29.8718° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 32.19 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 40km WNW 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 2015-09-17 21:54:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-10-05 22:47:52 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 0.444 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.4 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 146 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 us20003kyy Id of event.
Event Code 20003kyy An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003kyy, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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