Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Calama in Chile

A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 149 km N of Calama, Chile (93 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 14/06/16 / 2016-06-14 22:42:24 / June 14, 2016 @ 10:42 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -68.9602° West, latitude -21.1132° South, depth = 113.41 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 113.41 km (70 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 18:42:24 / 6:42 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us200064fk. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us200064fk.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days sixty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 149 km N of Calama, Chile.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.9602° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-21.1132° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	113.41 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	149km N of Calama, Chile	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-06-14 22:42:24	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-06-14 23:24:41	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	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	340	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	0.497	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.89 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	28	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	us200064fk	Id of event.
Event Code	200064fk	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us200064fk,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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