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Minor earthquake: M3.8 quake has struck near Iquique in Chile

Posted by admin on March 12, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -20.207S, -70.8947WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 78 kilometers (48 miles) from Iquique in Chile. The 3.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:08:22 / 5:08 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 15.21 km (9 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -70.8947 West, latitude -20.207 South, depth = 15.21 km. Global time and date of event 13/02/16 / 2016-02-13 22:08:22 / February 13, 2016 @ 10:08 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us200050vf. Ids that are associated to the event: us200050vf.

Epicenter of the event was 79 km (49 miles) from Iquique (c. 227 500 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Iquique.

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 78 km W of Iquique, Chile.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -70.8947° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -20.207° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15.21 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 78km W of Iquique, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-02-13 22:08:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-12 01:09:39 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 0.719 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.4 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 196 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 us200050vf Id of event.
Event Code 200050vf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200050vf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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