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Minor earthquake: M3.6 quake has struck near La Ligua in Chile

Posted by admin on March 14, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -32.6055S, -71.6903WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 46 kilometers (29 miles) from La Ligua in Chile. The 3.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:09:45 / 10:09 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -71.6903 West, latitude -32.6055 South, depth = 33.03 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 14/03/16 / 2016-03-14 01:09:45 / March 14, 2016 @ 1:09 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 33.03 km (21 miles). Event id: us10004x9u. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10004x9u.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 48 km (30 miles) from Viña del Mar (c. 294 600 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Valparaíso (c. 282 400 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Quilpué (c. 130 300 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Villa Alemana (c. 97 300 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Quillota (c. 67 800 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Hacienda La Calera (c. 49 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Llaillay, Limache, Villa Alemana (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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 four and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-five 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. 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: 46 km WSW of La Ligua, Chile.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.6903° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -32.6055° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 33.03 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 46km WSW of La Ligua, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-03-14 01:09:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-14 01:28:38 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 199 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 0.334 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.08 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 178 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 us10004x9u Id of event.
Event Code 10004x9u An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004x9u, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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