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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 113 km ENE of Iquique, Chile

Posted by admin on July 25, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -19.695S, -69.2162WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 113 km ENE of Iquique, Chile (70 miles) on Sunday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 103.24 km (64 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -69.2162 West, latitude -19.695 South, depth = 103.24 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20006hc1. Id of event: us20006hc1. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:14:03 / 11:14 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 25/07/16 / 2016-07-25 03:14:03 / July 25, 2016 @ 3:14 am UTC/GMT.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fifty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 113 km ENE of Iquique, Chile.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -69.2162° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -19.695° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 103.24 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 113km ENE 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 2016-07-25 03:14:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-25 03:58:44 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 0.033 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 55 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 us20006hc1 Id of event.
Event Code 20006hc1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20006hc1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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