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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Los Andes in Chile

Posted by admin on December 27, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -33.118S, -69.997WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 64 kilometers (40 miles) from Los Andes in Chile. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/12/16 / 2016-12-26 18:23:34 / December 26, 2016 @ 6:23 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -69.997 West, latitude -33.118 South, depth = 127.4 km. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:23:34 / 3:23 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 127.4 km (79 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us10007mxi. Unique identifier: us10007mxi.

Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Santiago (c. 4 837 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Puente Alto (c. 510 400 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from San Bernardo (c. 249 900 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from La Pintana (c. 201 200 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Lo Prado (c. 104 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from San Felipe (c. 59 300 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lampa, San Bernardo, San Felipe.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 64 km ESE of Los Andes, Chile.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -69.997° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -33.118° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 127.4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 64km ESE of Los Andes, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-12-26 18:23:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-27 16:07:37 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -180 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 284 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 0.63 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 us10007mxi Id of event.
Event Code 10007mxi An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007mxi, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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