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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Calama in Chile

Posted by admin on March 31, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -22.6479S, -68.5852WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Calama in Chile. The temblor was picked up at 04:53:28 / 4:53 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 31/03/16 / 2016-03-31 07:53:28 / March 31, 2016 @ 7:53 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.5852 West, latitude -22.6479 South, depth = 92.65 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us20005dm3. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20005dm3. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 92.65 km (58 miles).

The epicenter was 41 km (26 miles) from Calama (c. 143 100 pop). Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Calama (min 5000 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 fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. 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: 41 km ESE of Calama, Chile.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.5852° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -22.6479° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 92.65 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 41km ESE 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 2016-03-31 07:53:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-31 08:11:43 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -180 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 385 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 0.303 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 44 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 us20005dm3 Id of event.
Event Code 20005dm3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005dm3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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