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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Lebu in Chile

Posted by admin on July 11, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -37.73S, -74.14WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Lebu in Chile on Sunday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/06/16 / 2016-06-12 17:07:50 / June 12, 2016 @ 5:07 pm. The temblor was reported at 12:07:50 / 12:07 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -74.14° West, latitude -37.73° South, depth = 28 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us200063ys. Unique identifier: us200063ys. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 28 km (17 miles).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arauco, Curanilahue, Cañete (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Curanilahue (c. 30 600 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Arauco (c. 24 700 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Lebu (c. 22 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Cañete (c. 20 200 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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 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: 45 km WSW of Lebu, Chile.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -74.14° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -37.73° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 28 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 45km WSW of Lebu, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-06-12 17:07:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-11 13:41:50 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 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 326 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.55 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 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 us200063ys Id of event.
Event Code 200063ys An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200063ys, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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