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Minor earthquake: M3.7 quake has struck near Iquique in Chile

Posted by admin on January 10, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location -19.5331S, -70.1743WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) strikes 76 kilometers (47 miles) from Iquique in Chile on Saturday. Exact location of event, depth 26.76 km, -70.1743° West, -19.5331° South. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/01/17 / 2017-01-07 17:33:03 / January 7, 2017 @ 5:33 pm. Unique identifier: us10007rw5. Ids that are associated to the event: us10007rw5. The 3.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:33:03 / 1:33 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 26.76 km (17 miles).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Iquique (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Iquique (c. 227 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. 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: 76 km N of Iquique, Chile.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -70.1743° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -19.5331° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 26.76 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 76km N of Iquique, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-01-07 17:33:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-10 16:08:30 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 211 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 0.08 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.87 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 166 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 us10007rw5 Id of event.
Event Code 10007rw5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007rw5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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