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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Diego de Almagro in Chile

Posted by admin on August 30, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -26.1167S, -70.4518WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 48 kilometers (30 miles) from Diego de Almagro in Chile. The temblor was detected at 14:09:49 / 2:09 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/08/16 / 2016-08-30 18:09:49 / August 30, 2016 @ 6:09 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20006vfx. Id of event: us20006vfx. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -70.4518 West, latitude -26.1167 South, depth = 48.44 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 48.44 km (30 miles).

Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Taltal, Diego de Almagro. Event epicenter was 49 km (30 miles) from Diego de Almagro (c. 18 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Taltal (c. 10 000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 48 km NW of Diego de Almagro, Chile.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -70.4518° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -26.1167° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 48.44 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 48km NW 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 2016-08-30 18:09:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-30 20:16:41 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 312 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 0.135 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 87 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 us20006vfx Id of event.
Event Code 20006vfx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20006vfx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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