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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Valparaiso in Chile

Posted by admin on January 30, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -33.212S, -72.3568WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 70 kilometers (43 miles) from Valparaiso in Chile. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 30/01/16 / 2016-01-30 13:28:19 / January 30, 2016 @ 1:28 pm. Exact location of earthquake, -72.3568° West, -33.212° South, depth 15.74 km. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:28:19 / 8:28 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 15.74 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. 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: us20004w1c. Id of event: us20004w1c.

Earthquake epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) from Viña del Mar (c. 294 600 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Valparaíso (c. 282 400 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Quilpué (c. 130 300 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Villa Alemana (c. 97 300 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from San Antonio (c. 85 700 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Cartagena (c. 16 900 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Villa Alemana, Quilpué, San Antonio. Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fifty-five 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 70 km WSW of Valparaiso, Chile.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -72.3568° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -33.212° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15.74 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 70km WSW of Valparaiso, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-01-30 13:28:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-01-30 14:16:37 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 0.632 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 190 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 us20004w1c Id of event.
Event Code 20004w1c An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20004w1c, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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