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Strong earthquake, 6.2 mag strikes near Diego de Almagro in Chile


Earthquake location -26.1057S, -70.6463WA earthquake magnitude 6.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 66 kilometers (41 miles) from Diego de Almagro in Chile. Unique identifier: us20006hi2. Ids that are associated to the event: us20006hi2. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/07/16 / 2016-07-25 17:26:49 / July 25, 2016 @ 5:26 pm. The 6.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:26:49 / 1:26 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 68.54 km (43 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -70.6463 West, latitude -26.1057 South, depth = 68.54 km.

Epicenter of the event was 66 km (41 miles) from Diego de Almagro (c. 18 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Taltal (c. 10 000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Taltal, Diego de Almagro.

Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. 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 thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 66 km WNW of Diego de Almagro, Chile.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -70.6463° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -26.1057° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 68.54 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 66km WNW of Diego de Almagro, 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 17:26:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-25 17:51:07 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 4.84 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 591 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 0.06 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 99 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 us20006hi2 Id of event.
Event Code 20006hi2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20006hi2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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