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Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag has occurred near La Ligua in Chile

Posted by admin on April 28, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -32.2767S, -71.9205WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) was reported 67 kilometers (42 miles) from La Ligua in Chile on Wednesday. The temblor was detected at 19:56:04 / 7:56 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/04/16 / 2016-04-28 00:56:04 / April 28, 2016 @ 12:56 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 15.46 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -71.9205 West, latitude -32.2767 South, depth = 15.46 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10005c25. Id of event: us10005c25.

Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hacienda La Calera, La Ligua (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 87 km (54 miles) from Hacienda La Calera (c. 49 100 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from La Ligua (c. 24 900 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days two hundred and sixty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor 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: 67 km WNW of La Ligua, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.9205° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -32.2767° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15.46 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 67km WNW of La Ligua, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-04-28 00:56:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-28 01:20:35 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 234 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 0.598 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.54 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 176 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 us10005c25 Id of event.
Event Code 10005c25 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005c25, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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