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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 14 km SE of Molina, Chile

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Molina in Chile on Friday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 94.41 km (59 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 19:36:02 / 7:36 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/03/16 / 2016-03-25 22:36:02 / March 25, 2016 @ 10:36 pm. Event id: us20005cir. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20005cir. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -71.1672 West, latitude -35.2049 South, depth = 94.41 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Longaví, Rengo, San Vicente (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 51 km (31 miles) from Talca (c. 197 500 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Curicó (c. 102 400 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Linares (c. 69 500 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Rengo (c. 38 100 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Santa Cruz (c. 33 300 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Molina (c. 28 800 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from San Vicente (c. 22 600 pop).

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

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 14 km SE of Molina, Chile.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-71.1672° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-35.2049° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	94.41 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	14km SE of Molina, Chile	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-03-25 22:36:02	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-03-25 23:02:40	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-180	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	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	312	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	0.519	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.81 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	72	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	us20005cir	Id of event.
Event Code	20005cir	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20005cir,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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