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Light earthquake 4.8 mag, 40 km SW of Valparaiso, Chile

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Earthquake location -33.2664S, -71.973WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Valparaiso in Chile. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/04/17 / 2017-04-24 23:54:44 / April 24, 2017 @ 11:54 pm. Unique identifier: us10008kfg. Ids that are associated to the event: us10008kfg. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -71.973° West, -33.2664° South, depth 17.76 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 17.76 km (11 miles). The temblor was reported at 18:54:44 / 6:54 pm (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 48 km (30 miles) from Viña del Mar (c. 294 600 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Valparaíso (c. 282 400 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Quilpué (c. 130 300 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Villa Alemana (c. 97 300 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from San Antonio (c. 85 700 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Quillota (c. 67 800 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Melipilla (c. 63 100 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hacienda La Calera, Melipilla, Quillota (min 5000 pop).

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

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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 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: 40 km SW of Valparaiso, Chile.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.973° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -33.2664° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 17.76 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 40km SW 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 23:54:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-04-25 00:18:54 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 6 The total number of felt reports
CDI 5.5 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 358 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 0.371 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.91 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 69 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 us10008kfg Id of event.
Event Code 10008kfg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008kfg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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