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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag has occurred near Coquimbo in Chile

Posted by admin on February 7, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location -29.6686S, -72.0247WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was reported 73 kilometers (45 miles) from Coquimbo in Chile on Monday. The temblor was picked up at 22:17:29 / 10:17 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20008i2r. Id of event: us20008i2r. Exact location of earthquake, -72.0247° West, -29.6686° South, depth 19.57 km. Global time and date of event 07/02/17 / 2017-02-07 03:17:29 / February 7, 2017 @ 3:17 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 19.57 km (12 miles).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was La Serena, Coquimbo (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 73 km (46 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from La Serena (c. 154 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 73 km WNW of Coquimbo, Chile.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -72.0247° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -29.6686° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 19.57 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 73km WNW 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 2017-02-07 03:17:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-02-07 03:41:02 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 354 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 0.727 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 92 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 us20008i2r Id of event.
Event Code 20008i2r An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20008i2r, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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