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Light earthquake, 4 mag was detected near Aisen in Chile


Earthquake location -45.6336S, -77.352WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, Off the coast of Aisen, Chile (0 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 17/05/16 / 2016-05-17 19:13:08 / May 17, 2016 @ 7:13 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 20.27 km (13 miles). Event id: us10005i1t. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10005i1t. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -77.352 West, latitude -45.6336 South, depth = 20.27 km. The temblor was picked up at 14:13:08 / 2:13 pm (local time epicenter).

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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: Off the coast of Aisen, Chile. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -77.352° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -45.6336° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 20.27 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Off the coast of Aisen, 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 19:13:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-16 16:39:29 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 246 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 3.548 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.93 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 197 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 us10005i1t Id of event.
Event Code 10005i1t An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005i1t, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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