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Minor World Earthquakes Magnitude -3.9

Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag was detected near Canete in Chile


Earthquake location -38.159S, -73.8837WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) was reported 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Canete in Chile on Tuesday. Exact location of event, longitude -73.8837 West, latitude -38.159 South, depth = 28.08 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 28.08 km (17 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/05/16 / 2016-05-17 22:48:59 / May 17, 2016 @ 10:48 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us10005i3k. Unique identifier: us10005i3k. The temblor was reported at 17:48:59 / 5:48 pm (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 64 km (40 miles) from Lebu (c. 22 300 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Cañete (c. 20 200 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Carahue (c. 11 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Carahue, Lebu, Cañete (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 58 km SW of Canete, Chile.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -73.8837° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -38.159° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 28.08 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 58km SW of Canete, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-05-17 22:48:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-08 23:09:44 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 0.739 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.09 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 153 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 us10005i3k Id of event.
Event Code 10005i3k An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005i3k, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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