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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Illapel in Chile

Posted by admin on October 17, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location -31.6677S, -72.228WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 100 km W of Illapel, Chile (62 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 16.69 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 03:38:55 / 3:38 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/10/15 / 2015-10-17 08:38:55 / October 17, 2015 @ 8:38 am. Exact location of event, longitude -72.228 West, latitude -31.6677 South, depth = 16.69 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us10003pbi. Ids that are associated to the event: us10003pbi.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days two hundred and eight and in the last 365 days two hundred and eighty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 100 km W of Illapel, Chile. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -72.228° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -31.6677° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16.69 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 100km W 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 2015-10-17 08:38:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-10-17 08:56:04 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 271 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 1.113 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.58 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 180 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 us10003pbi Id of event.
Event Code 10003pbi An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003pbi, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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