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Moderate earthquake: M5.5 quake has struck near Constitucion in Chile

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A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Constitucion in Chile. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 19.17 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 19.17 km, -72.5297° West, -34.8983° South. The temblor was picked up at 03:09:09 / 3:09 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/08/16 / 2016-08-30 08:09:09 / August 30, 2016 @ 8:09 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20006v8s. Id of event: us20006v8s.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Rauco, Santa Cruz, San Javier (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 99 km (61 miles) from Talca (c. 197 500 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Constitución (c. 37 900 pop), 110 km (68 miles) from Santa Cruz (c. 33 300 pop), 106 km (66 miles) from San Javier (c. 22 400 pop), 111 km (69 miles) from Rauco (c. 8 600 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. 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 fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 49 km NNW of Constitucion, Chile.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-72.5297° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-34.8983° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	19.17 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	49km NNW of Constitucion, 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 08:09:09	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-08-30 08:29:50	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.2	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	4.36	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	466	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	0.504	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.73 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	86	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	us20006v8s	Id of event.
Event Code	20006v8s	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20006v8s,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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