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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag strikes near Santa Cruz in Chile

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Santa Cruz in Chile. Exact location of event, longitude -71.833 West, latitude -34.7839 South, depth = 42.76 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/03/17 / 2017-03-11 03:42:16 / March 11, 2017 @ 3:42 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:42:16 / 11:42 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 42.76 km (27 miles). Event id: us100088d4. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100088d4.

Event epicenter was 73 km (46 miles) from Talca (c. 197 500 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Curicó (c. 102 400 pop), 99 km (61 miles) from Rengo (c. 38 100 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Constitución (c. 37 900 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Santa Cruz (c. 33 300 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Molina (c. 28 800 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from San Vicente (c. 22 600 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Rengo, San Javier, San Clemente (min 5000 pop).

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

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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. 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: 45 km WSW of Santa Cruz, Chile.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-71.833° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-34.7839° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	42.76 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	45km WSW of Santa Cruz, Chile	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-03-11 03:42:16	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-03-11 04:06:56	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	17	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.4	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	375	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	0.239	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.73 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	70	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	us100088d4	Id of event.
Event Code	100088d4	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us100088d4,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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