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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag was detected near Coquimbo in Chile

Posted by admin on June 1, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -30.1131S, -72.2382WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was reported 88 kilometers (55 miles) from Coquimbo in Chile on Wednesday. The temblor was picked up at 16:47:55 / 4:47 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 01/06/16 / 2016-06-01 21:47:55 / June 1, 2016 @ 9:47 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -72.2382° West, -30.1131° South, depth 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us20005zs9. Unique identifier: us20005zs9.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 88 km (55 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Coquimbo (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 two, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days three hundred and eighty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 88 km WSW of Coquimbo, Chile.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -72.2382° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -30.1131° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 88km WSW of Coquimbo, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-06-01 21:47:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-01 22:09:15 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 259 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 0.764 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 144 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 us20005zs9 Id of event.
Event Code 20005zs9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005zs9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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