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Light earthquake, 4 mag has occurred near Vilcun in Chile

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A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) strikes 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Vilcun in Chile on Friday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 111.14 km (69 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us10004uuw. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10004uuw. Global time and date of event 04/03/16 / 2016-03-04 23:50:15 / March 4, 2016 @ 11:50 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -71.7184 West, latitude -38.7673 South, depth = 111.14 km. The 4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:50:15 / 8:50 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pitrufquén, Freire, Victoria. Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 76 km (47 miles) from Temuco (c. 238 100 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Villarrica (c. 31 600 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Pucón (c. 27 000 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Victoria (c. 24 600 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Lautaro (c. 21 600 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Pitrufquén (c. 13 700 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 46 km ESE of Vilcun, Chile.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-71.7184° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-38.7673° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	111.14 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	46km ESE of Vilcun, Chile	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-03-04 23:50:15	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-03-05 00:25:03	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-180	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	0.179	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.15 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	78	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	us10004uuw	Id of event.
Event Code	10004uuw	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10004uuw,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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