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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 21 km NW of Melipilla, Chile

Posted by admin on March 14, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location -33.5417S, -71.3588WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Melipilla in Chile on Tuesday. Event id: us100088wg. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100088wg. Exact location of earthquake, -71.3588° West, -33.5417° South, depth 43.34 km. The temblor was detected at 11:11:18 / 11:11 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 43.34 km (27 miles). Global time and date of event 14/03/17 / 2017-03-14 15:11:18 / March 14, 2017 @ 3:11 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 67 km (41 miles) from Santiago (c. 4 837 300 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Puente Alto (c. 510 400 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Viña del Mar (c. 294 600 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Valparaíso (c. 282 400 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from San Bernardo (c. 249 900 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Rancagua (c. 212 700 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Rancagua, Llaillay, Hacienda La Calera.

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 twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 21 km NW of Melipilla, Chile.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.3588° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -33.5417° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 43.34 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km NW of Melipilla, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-03-14 15:11:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-03-14 16:27:14 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 20 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.1 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 306 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 0.242 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.56 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 89 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 us100088wg Id of event.
Event Code 100088wg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100088wg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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