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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 87 km WSW of Illapel, Chile

Posted by admin on November 16, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location -31.8316S, -72.0559WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 87 kilometers (54 miles) from Illapel in Chile. Exact location of event, depth 8.16 km, -72.0559° West, -31.8316° South. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/11/15 / 2015-11-16 15:15:29 / November 16, 2015 @ 3:15 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 8.16 km (5 miles). The temblor was picked up at 10:15:29 / 10:15 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us10003yp4. Event ids that are associated: us10003yp4.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Illapel (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 87 km (54 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop).

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

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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: 87 km WSW of Illapel, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -72.0559° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -31.8316° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.16 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 87km 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 2015-11-16 15:15:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-16 21:32:24 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 326 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 1.209 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.53 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 80 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 us10003yp4 Id of event.
Event Code 10003yp4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003yp4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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