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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Coquimbo in Chile

Posted by admin on July 11, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -30.2466S, -71.6035WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Coquimbo in Chile on Saturday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/06/16 / 2016-06-11 13:44:59 / June 11, 2016 @ 1:44 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:44:59 / 9:44 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -71.6035 West, latitude -30.2466 South, depth = 35 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Event id: us200063tf. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us200063tf.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Vicuña, Monte Patria, Ovalle. Earthquake epicenter was 41 km (26 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from La Serena (c. 154 500 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Monte Patria (c. 13 900 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Vicuña (c. 13 500 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been eleven, in the last 10 days nineteen, in the past 30 days twenty-five and in the last 365 days four hundred and fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 41 km SW of Coquimbo, Chile.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.6035° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -30.2466° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 41km SW of Coquimbo, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-06-11 13:44:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-11 13:23:57 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 0.426 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.09 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 187 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 us200063tf Id of event.
Event Code 200063tf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200063tf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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