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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Illapel in Chile


Earthquake location -31.7433S, -72.0971WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 89 kilometers (55 miles) from Illapel in Chile. All ids that are associated to the event: us20005cjl. Unique identifier: us20005cjl. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/03/16 / 2016-03-26 04:45:41 / March 26, 2016 @ 4:45 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 15.37 km (10 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -72.0971 West, latitude -31.7433 South, depth = 15.37 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 23:45:41 / 11:45 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). The epicenter was 89 km (55 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Illapel.

In the past 24 hours, there have been nine, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days three hundred and seventy earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 89 km W of Illapel, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -72.0971° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -31.7433° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15.37 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 89km W 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 2016-03-26 04:45:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-23 23:01:07 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 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 298 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 1.06 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.92 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 183 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 us20005cjl Id of event.
Event Code 20005cjl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005cjl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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