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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Calama in Chile

Posted by admin on June 17, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -22.9645S, -69.0692WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Calama in Chile on Thursday. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:30:53 / 11:30 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 114.82 km, -69.0692° West, -22.9645° South. Id of earthquake: us200064zj. Event ids that are associated: us200064zj. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 114.82 km (71 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/06/16 / 2016-06-17 03:30:53 / June 17, 2016 @ 3:30 am.

Event epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) from Calama (c. 143 100 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Calama (min 5000 pop).

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 twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 56 km SSW of Calama, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -69.0692° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -22.9645° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 114.82 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 56km SSW 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 2016-06-17 03:30:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-17 03:48:18 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 284 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 0.379 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 62 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 us200064zj Id of event.
Event Code 200064zj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200064zj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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