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Light earthquake, 4 mag strikes near Illapel in Chile

Posted by admin on November 23, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location -31.5438S, -71.9463WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) strikes 74 kilometers (46 miles) from Illapel in Chile on Sunday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/11/15 / 2015-11-23 04:37:47 / November 23, 2015 @ 4:37 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 23:37:47 / 11:37 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -71.9463° West, latitude -31.5438° South, depth = 18.97 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 18.97 km (12 miles). Id of earthquake: us100040fv. Event ids that are associated: us100040fv.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Illapel (min 5000 pop).

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

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 74 km W of Illapel, Chile. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.9463° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -31.5438° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 18.97 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 74km 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 2015-11-23 04:37:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-23 04:59:30 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 246 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 0.907 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.48 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 82 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 us100040fv Id of event.
Event Code 100040fv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100040fv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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