Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Earthquake breaking news, Light World Earthquakes Magnitude 4-4.9

Light earthquake, 4 mag was detected near San Clemente in Chile


Earthquake location -35.626S, -71.416WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from San Clemente in Chile. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us20005c2v. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20005c2v. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/03/16 / 2016-03-23 18:59:37 / March 23, 2016 @ 6:59 pm. The temblor was reported at 15:59:37 / 3:59 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -71.416 West, latitude -35.626 South, depth = 97.1 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 97.1 km (60 miles).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Cauquenes, Teno, Rauco (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 31 km (19 miles) from Talca (c. 197 500 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Curicó (c. 102 400 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Linares (c. 69 500 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Cauquenes (c. 31 400 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Molina (c. 28 800 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Parral (c. 26 900 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

Did you feel the quake?

What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 10 km SE of San Clemente, Chile. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Copyright © 2016 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.416° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -35.626° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 97.1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km SE of San Clemente, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-03-23 18:59:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-23 20:26:30 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 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 us20005c2v Id of event.
Event Code 20005c2v An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005c2v, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply