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Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag was detected near Illapel in Chile

Posted by admin on March 16, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -31.2371S, -71.678WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 65 kilometers (40 miles) from Illapel in Chile. The temblor was reported at 00:49:33 / 12:49 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us20005a3a. Ids that are associated to the event: us20005a3a. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/03/16 / 2016-03-16 03:49:33 / March 16, 2016 @ 3:49 am. Exact location of earthquake, -71.678° West, -31.2371° South, depth 22.4 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 22.4 km (14 miles).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Monte Patria, Salamanca, Ovalle. Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Event epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Monte Patria (c. 13 900 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Salamanca (c. 13 300 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days five hundred and nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 65 km NW of Illapel, Chile.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.678° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -31.2371° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 22.4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 65km NW 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 2016-03-16 03:49:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-16 04:14:33 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -180 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 7 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 418 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 0.562 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.96 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 132 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 us20005a3a Id of event.
Event Code 20005a3a An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005a3a, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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