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Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag strikes near La Ligua in Chile

Posted by admin on June 15, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -32.2731S, -72.0246WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) was reported 77 kilometers (48 miles) from La Ligua in Chile on Tuesday. Exact location of event, longitude -72.0246 West, latitude -32.2731 South, depth = 10 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/06/16 / 2016-06-14 23:05:19 / June 14, 2016 @ 11:05 pm. The temblor was detected at 18:05:19 / 6:05 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Unique identifier: us200064ft. Ids that are associated to the event: us200064ft.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was La Ligua (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from La Ligua (c. 24 900 pop). Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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 eight and in the last 365 days two hundred and seventy-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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 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: 77 km WNW of La Ligua, Chile.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -72.0246° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -32.2731° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 77km WNW of La Ligua, 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 23:05:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-14 23:52:40 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 0.678 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.02 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 192 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 us200064ft Id of event.
Event Code 200064ft An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200064ft, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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