Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag has occurred near Lebu in Chile

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) strikes 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Lebu in Chile on Sunday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/02/17 / 2017-02-19 07:10:39 / February 19, 2017 @ 7:10 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 18.36 km (11 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20008ks0. Id of event: us20008ks0. The 3.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:10:39 / 2:10 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -74.1723° West, latitude -37.552° South, depth = 18.36 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 73 km (46 miles) from Curanilahue (c. 30 600 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Arauco (c. 24 700 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Lebu (c. 22 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Cañete (c. 20 200 pop). Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arauco, Cañete, Curanilahue (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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.

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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: 46 km W of Lebu, Chile.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-74.1723° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-37.552° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	18.36 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	46km W of Lebu, Chile	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-02-19 07:10:39	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-03-15 11:12:11	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	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	1.122	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.54 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	193	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	us20008ks0	Id of event.
Event Code	20008ks0	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20008ks0,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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