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Minor earthquake, 3.6 mag was detected near La Ligua in Chile

Posted by admin on December 13, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -32.6062S, -71.4355WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) strikes 25 kilometers (16 miles) from La Ligua in Chile on Monday. The temblor was picked up at 00:45:39 / 12:45 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 34.69 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 12/12/16 / 2016-12-12 04:45:39 / December 12, 2016 @ 4:45 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -71.4355 West, latitude -32.6062 South, depth = 34.69 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000803v. Id of event: us2000803v.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Los Andes, San Felipe, Llaillay (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 48 km (30 miles) from Viña del Mar (c. 294 600 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Valparaíso (c. 282 400 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Quilpué (c. 130 300 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Villa Alemana (c. 97 300 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Quillota (c. 67 800 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from San Felipe (c. 59 300 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 25 km SW of La Ligua, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.4355° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -32.6062° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 34.69 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 25km SW 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 2016-12-12 04:45:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-13 23:13:17 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 199 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 0.124 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 153 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 us2000803v Id of event.
Event Code 2000803v An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000803v, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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