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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag was detected near Iquique in Chile


Earthquake location -20.1948S, -70.9115WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 80 kilometers (50 miles) from Iquique in Chile. All ids that are associated to the event: us10005zyk. Unique identifier: us10005zyk. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 11.2 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -70.9115 West, latitude -20.1948 South, depth = 11.2 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/07/16 / 2016-07-05 02:29:03 / July 5, 2016 @ 2:29 am. The temblor was picked up at 21:29:03 / 9:29 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) from Iquique (c. 227 500 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Iquique.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 80 km W of Iquique, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -70.9115° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -20.1948° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.2 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 80km W of Iquique, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-07-05 02:29:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-05 02:47:50 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.2 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 385 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 0.736 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.9 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 136 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 us10005zyk Id of event.
Event Code 10005zyk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005zyk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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