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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near San Antonio in Chile

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 41 kilometers (25 miles) from San Antonio in Chile on Monday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 24.46 km (15 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/04/16 / 2016-04-25 20:10:35 / April 25, 2016 @ 8:10 pm. Event id: us10005bgv. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10005bgv. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -72.036 West, latitude -33.7325 South, depth = 24.46 km. The temblor was picked up at 16:10:35 / 4:10 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

The epicenter was 91 km (56 miles) from Viña del Mar (c. 294 600 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Valparaíso (c. 282 400 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Quilpué (c. 130 300 pop), 43 km (26 miles) from San Antonio (c. 85 700 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Melipilla (c. 63 100 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Cartagena (c. 16 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Quilpué, Viña del Mar, Valparaíso (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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: 41 km WSW of San Antonio, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-72.036° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-33.7325° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	24.46 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	41km WSW of San Antonio, Chile	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-04-25 20:10:35	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-04-25 23:40:37	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	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	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	0.359	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.87 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	131	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	us10005bgv	Id of event.
Event Code	10005bgv	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10005bgv,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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