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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Talcahuano in Chile


Earthquake location -36.4734S, -73.7061WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 59 kilometers (37 miles) from Talcahuano in Chile on Wednesday. Unique identifier: us100076g2. Ids that are associated to the event: us100076g2. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -73.7061° West, -36.4734° South. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/11/16 / 2016-11-09 11:04:08 / November 9, 2016 @ 11:04 am. The temblor was reported at 06:04:08 / 6:04 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquake epicenter was 60 km (37 miles) from Talcahuano (c. 253 000 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Concepción (c. 215 400 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Coronel (c. 92 900 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Chiguayante (c. 82 500 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Lota (c. 49 800 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Tomé (c. 46 700 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Penco (c. 46 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arauco, Lota, Coronel (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 59 km WNW of Talcahuano, Chile. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -73.7061° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -36.4734° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 59km WNW of Talcahuano, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-11-09 11:04:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-11-09 11:32:16 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 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 0.497 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.56 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 121 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 us100076g2 Id of event.
Event Code 100076g2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100076g2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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