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Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag was detected near Calama in Chile


Earthquake location -21.7881S, -68.307WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 99 kilometers (62 miles) from Calama in Chile. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 18/04/17 / 2017-04-18 01:48:43 / April 18, 2017 @ 1:48 am. The temblor was reported at 21:48:43 / 9:48 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us10008ihl. Unique identifier: us10008ihl. 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 113.04 km (70 miles). Exact location, longitude -68.307° West, latitude -21.7881° South, depth = 113.04 km.

The epicenter was 98 km (61 miles) from Calama (c. 143 100 pop). Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Calama (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days eighty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 99 km NE of Calama, Chile. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.307° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -21.7881° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 113.04 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 99km NE of Calama, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-04-18 01:48:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-04-18 02:07:48 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 416 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 0.868 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.22 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 32 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 us10008ihl Id of event.
Event Code 10008ihl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008ihl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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