Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Coquimbo in Chile

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 75 kilometers (47 miles) from Coquimbo in Chile. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 05:25:57 / 5:25 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us10006ucx. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10006ucx. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 01/10/16 / 2016-10-01 10:25:57 / October 1, 2016 @ 10:25 am. Exact location of event, longitude -72.0358 West, latitude -29.636 South, depth = 10 km.

Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was La Serena, Coquimbo. The epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from La Serena (c. 154 500 pop).

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

Did you feel the quake?

How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 75 km WNW of Coquimbo, Chile.

More information

Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-72.0358° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-29.636° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	75km WNW of Coquimbo, 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 10:25:57	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-10-01 10:42:24	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	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	340	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	0.748	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	96	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mwr	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us10006ucx	Id of event.
Event Code	10006ucx	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10006ucx,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Coquimbo in Chile

Did you feel the quake?

More information

Leave a ReplyCancel reply

Follow us!

Tsunami videos

Categories

Information