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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Quillota in Chile

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Quillota in Chile. Id of earthquake: us10005fum. Event ids that are associated: us10005fum. Global time and date of event 08/05/16 / 2016-05-08 10:33:12 / May 8, 2016 @ 10:33 am UTC/GMT. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:33:12 / 6:33 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 31.9 km, -71.4961° West, -32.7516° South. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 31.9 km (20 miles).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Chicureo Abajo, San Antonio, Cartagena (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 31 km (19 miles) from Viña del Mar (c. 294 600 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Valparaíso (c. 282 400 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Quilpué (c. 130 300 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Villa Alemana (c. 97 300 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from San Antonio (c. 85 700 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Quillota (c. 67 800 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from San Felipe (c. 59 300 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days ninety-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 25 km NW of Quillota, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-71.4961° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-32.7516° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	31.9 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	25km NW of Quillota, Chile	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-05-08 10:33:12	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-05-08 10:55:34	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	4	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.1	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	341	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	0.295	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.65 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	122	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	us10005fum	Id of event.
Event Code	10005fum	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10005fum,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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