Minor earthquake: M3.6 quake has struck near Valparaiso in Chile

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 52 kilometers (32 miles) from Valparaiso in Chile. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 18.65 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -71.826° West, -32.5969° South, depth 18.65 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 01/05/16 / 2016-05-01 01:15:43 / May 1, 2016 @ 1:15 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 20:15:43 / 8:15 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us10005csg. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10005csg.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Limache, Villa Alemana, Quillota (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 54 km (34 miles) from Viña del Mar (c. 294 600 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Valparaíso (c. 282 400 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Quilpué (c. 130 300 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Villa Alemana (c. 97 300 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Quillota (c. 67 800 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Hacienda La Calera (c. 49 100 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 52 km NNW of Valparaiso, Chile.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-71.826° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-32.5969° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	18.65 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	52km NNW of Valparaiso, Chile	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-05-01 01:15:43	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-05-21 01:58:51	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	199	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	0.447	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.84 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	170	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	us10005csg	Id of event.
Event Code	10005csg	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10005csg,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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