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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Coquimbo in Chile


Earthquake location -30.2936S, -72.2066WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 91 kilometers (57 miles) from Coquimbo in Chile. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 34.04 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 03/01/17 / 2017-01-03 20:16:38 / January 3, 2017 @ 8:16 pm. Exact location, longitude -72.2066° West, latitude -30.2936° South, depth = 34.04 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007pik. Id of event: us10007pik. The temblor was detected at 15:16:38 / 3:16 pm (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). The epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Coquimbo (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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: 91 km WSW of Coquimbo, Chile.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -72.2066° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -30.2936° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 34.04 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 91km WSW 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 2017-01-03 20:16:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-05 17:20:53 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 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 0.918 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.4 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 us10007pik Id of event.
Event Code 10007pik An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007pik, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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