Minor earthquake 3.9 mag, 122 km NNE of Calama, Chile

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) was reported 122 km NNE of Calama, Chile (76 miles) on Saturday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 133.95 km (83 miles). The 3.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:24:02 / 4:24 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us10004u3w. Unique identifier: us10004u3w. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.515 West, latitude -21.4311 South, depth = 133.95 km. Global time and date of event 27/02/16 / 2016-02-27 19:24:02 / February 27, 2016 @ 7:24 pm UTC/GMT.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days fifty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 122 km NNE of Calama, Chile. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.515° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-21.4311° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	133.95 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	122km NNE of Calama, Chile	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-02-27 19:24:02	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-03-19 01:28:45	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	234	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	0.767	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.53 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	110	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	us10004u3w	Id of event.
Event Code	10004u3w	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10004u3w,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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