Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 114 km ESE of Iquique, Chile

A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 114 km ESE of Iquique, Chile (71 miles). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 109.19 km (68 miles). Exact location of event, depth 109.19 km, -69.1586° West, -20.6827° South. The temblor was picked up at 06:23:56 / 6:23 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 14/08/16 / 2016-08-14 10:23:56 / August 14, 2016 @ 10:23 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us10006dqt. Unique identifier: us10006dqt.

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 114 km ESE of Iquique, Chile. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-69.1586° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-20.6827° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	109.19 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	114km ESE 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	2016-08-14 10:23:56	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-08-14 10:39:58	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	298	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	0.472	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.47 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	81	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	us10006dqt	Id of event.
Event Code	10006dqt	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10006dqt,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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