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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Lebu in Chile

Posted by admin on May 31, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -37.8325S, -73.9686WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Lebu in Chile on Tuesday. The temblor was picked up at 16:47:25 / 4:47 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -73.9686 West, latitude -37.8325 South, depth = 17.22 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 17.22 km (11 miles). Event id: us10005gec. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10005gec. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 10/05/16 / 2016-05-10 21:47:25 / May 10, 2016 @ 9:47 pm.

Earthquake epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from Curanilahue (c. 30 600 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Arauco (c. 24 700 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Lebu (c. 22 300 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Cañete (c. 20 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arauco, Curanilahue, Cañete.

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

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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. 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: 36 km SW of Lebu, Chile.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -73.9686° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -37.8325° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 17.22 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 36km SW of Lebu, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-05-10 21:47:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-31 02:28:43 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 1.058 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.64 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 193 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 us10005gec Id of event.
Event Code 10005gec An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005gec, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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