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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Valparaiso in Chile

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Valparaiso in Chile. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20006uma. Id of event: us20006uma. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:36:08 / 3:36 pm (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 event in UTC/GMT: 27/08/16 / 2016-08-27 19:36:08 / August 27, 2016 @ 7:36 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 32.73 km (20 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -71.6753° West, -32.7839° South, depth 32.73 km.

Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 29 km (18 miles) from Viña del Mar (c. 294 600 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Valparaíso (c. 282 400 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Quilpué (c. 130 300 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Villa Alemana (c. 97 300 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from San Antonio (c. 85 700 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Quillota (c. 67 800 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lampa, San Antonio, San Felipe.

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 one hundred and two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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: 28 km N of Valparaiso, Chile.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-71.6753° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-32.7839° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	32.73 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	28km N 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	2016-08-27 19:36:08	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-08-27 20:25:37	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	5	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	272	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	0.24	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.99 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	70	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	us20006uma	Id of event.
Event Code	20006uma	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20006uma,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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