Light earthquake, 4 mag was detected near Mulchen in Chile

A light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was reported 51 kilometers (32 miles) from Mulchen in Chile on Tuesday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -71.7397 West, latitude -37.4737 South, depth = 121.35 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 04/04/17 / 2017-04-04 22:53:39 / April 4, 2017 @ 10:53 pm UTC/GMT. Event id: us10008efk. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10008efk. The temblor was picked up at 18:53:39 / 6:53 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 121.35 km (75 miles).

Event epicenter was 54 km (34 miles) from Los Ángeles (c. 125 400 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Mulchén (c. 22 200 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Nacimiento (c. 21 200 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Cabrero (c. 18 300 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from La Laja (c. 16 600 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Collipulli (c. 16 400 pop). Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was La Laja, Yumbel, Nacimiento (min 5000 pop).

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

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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: 51 km ENE of Mulchen, Chile.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-71.7397° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-37.4737° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	121.35 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	51km ENE of Mulchen, Chile	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-04-04 22:53:39	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-04-21 22:43:35	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	246	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	1.367	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.85 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	78	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	us10008efk	Id of event.
Event Code	10008efk	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10008efk,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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