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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near La Ligua in Chile

Posted by admin on October 1, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -32.078S, -71.709WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 61 kilometers (38 miles) from La Ligua in Chile on Saturday. All ids that are associated to the event: us10006udi. Unique identifier: us10006udi. Exact location of event, longitude -71.709 West, latitude -32.078 South, depth = 16.3 km. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:25:11 / 7:25 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 16.3 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/10/16 / 2016-10-01 11:25:11 / October 1, 2016 @ 11:25 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Event epicenter was 91 km (57 miles) from Hacienda La Calera (c. 49 100 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from La Ligua (c. 24 900 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Salamanca (c. 13 300 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hacienda La Calera, Salamanca, Illapel (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 61 km NW of La Ligua, Chile. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.709° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -32.078° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16.3 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 61km NW of La Ligua, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-10-01 11:25:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-01 11:41:01 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 326 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 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 us10006udi Id of event.
Event Code 10006udi An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006udi, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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