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Light earthquake, 4 mag strikes near Valparaiso in Chile


Earthquake location -33.1035S, -72.0959WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) strikes 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Valparaiso in Chile on Sunday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us10008k5g. Unique identifier: us10008k5g. The temblor was detected at 20:19:40 / 8:19 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -72.0959 West, latitude -33.1035 South, depth = 19.56 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 19.56 km (12 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/04/17 / 2017-04-24 01:19:40 / April 24, 2017 @ 1:19 am.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hacienda La Calera, Quillota, Limache (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 51 km (32 miles) from Viña del Mar (c. 294 600 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Valparaíso (c. 282 400 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Quilpué (c. 130 300 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Villa Alemana (c. 97 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from San Antonio (c. 85 700 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Quillota (c. 67 800 pop). Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been nine, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 44 km W of Valparaiso, Chile.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -72.0959° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -33.1035° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 19.56 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 44km W of Valparaiso, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-04-24 01:19:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-04-24 02:17:38 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.6 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 247 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 0.393 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.63 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 137 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 us10008k5g Id of event.
Event Code 10008k5g An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008k5g, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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