Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Minor World Earthquakes Magnitude -3.9

Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag was detected near Vallenar in Chile

Posted by admin on January 17, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location -28.7678S, -71.5886WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) was reported 84 kilometers (52 miles) from Vallenar in Chile on Saturday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 40.04 km (25 miles). Id of earthquake: us10007mg4. Event ids that are associated: us10007mg4. Exact location of event, depth 40.04 km, -71.5886° West, -28.7678° South. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/12/16 / 2016-12-24 04:49:41 / December 24, 2016 @ 4:49 am. The 3.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:49:41 / 12:49 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from Vallenar (c. 44 900 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Vallenar.

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

Did you feel anything?

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. 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: 84 km WSW of Vallenar, Chile.

Copyright © 2017 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.5886° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -28.7678° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 40.04 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 84km WSW of Vallenar, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-12-24 04:49:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-17 06:00:26 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 234 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 0.721 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 127 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 us10007mg4 Id of event.
Event Code 10007mg4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007mg4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply

Follow us!

Tsunami videos

Categories

Information

Information and facts about all earthquakes today. Earthquake news and analysis on current events, Plate Tectonics, Seismometers, quake prediction, environment, Tsunamis, Seismologists, Prediction, live now, videos, information, pictures and much more. Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today.

© 2024 Earthquakes today - Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today