Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag was detected near Illapel in Chile

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 94 km W of Illapel, Chile (58 miles). The temblor was detected at 15:43:07 / 3:43 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us100049qx. Event ids that are associated: us100049qx. Exact location of event, longitude -72.1583 West, latitude -31.6969 South, depth = 10 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 26/12/15 / 2015-12-26 20:43:07 / December 26, 2015 @ 8:43 pm UTC/GMT.

In the past 24 hours, there have been eleven, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days three hundred and fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 94 km W of Illapel, Chile.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-72.1583° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-31.6969° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	94km 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	2015-12-26 20:43:07	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-01-24 05:11:52	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	222	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	1.114	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.79 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	194	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	us100049qx	Id of event.
Event Code	100049qx	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us100049qx,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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