Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Illapel in Chile

A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Illapel in Chile. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10003jjf. Id of event: us10003jjf. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/09/15 / 2015-09-18 05:33:51 / September 18, 2015 @ 5:33 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -71.6089 West, latitude -31.2382 South, depth = 36.58 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 36.58 km (23 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 02:33:51 / 2:33 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Monte Patria, Salamanca, Ovalle (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Event epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Monte Patria (c. 13 900 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Salamanca (c. 13 300 pop).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 60 km NW of Illapel, 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	-71.6089° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-31.2382° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	36.58 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	60km 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	2015-09-18 05:33:51	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-10-07 07:38:10	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	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	1.27	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	162	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	us10003jjf	Id of event.
Event Code	10003jjf	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10003jjf,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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