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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag was detected near Valparaiso in Chile

Posted by admin on July 26, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -32.6309S, -71.8346WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Valparaiso in Chile. Exact location of event, longitude -71.8346 West, latitude -32.6309 South, depth = 19.56 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/07/16 / 2016-07-26 23:00:22 / July 26, 2016 @ 11:00 pm. Event id: us20006hyj. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20006hyj. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 19.56 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 18:00:22 / 6:00 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 51 km (32 miles) from Viña del Mar (c. 294 600 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Valparaíso (c. 282 400 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Quilpué (c. 130 300 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Villa Alemana (c. 97 300 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Quillota (c. 67 800 pop), 105 km (65 miles) from San Felipe (c. 59 300 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Hacienda La Calera (c. 49 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Cartagena, San Felipe, Llaillay (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 one hundred and eighty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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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: 49 km NNW of Valparaiso, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.8346° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -32.6309° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 19.56 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 49km NNW of Valparaiso, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-07-26 23:00:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-26 23:23:14 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 16 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.6 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 408 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 0.424 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.87 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 69 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 us20006hyj Id of event.
Event Code 20006hyj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20006hyj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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