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Light earthquake 4.7 mag, 38 km SW of Valparaiso, Chile

Posted by admin on April 27, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location -33.2566S, -71.9474WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was reported 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Valparaiso in Chile on Thursday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/04/17 / 2017-04-27 08:24:40 / April 27, 2017 @ 8:24 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 20.87 km (13 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us10008l8p. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10008l8p. Exact location of event, depth 20.87 km, -71.9474° West, -33.2566° South. The temblor was detected at 03:24:40 / 3:24 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lampa, Hacienda La Calera, Melipilla (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 45 km (28 miles) from Viña del Mar (c. 294 600 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Valparaíso (c. 282 400 pop), 52 km (33 miles) from Quilpué (c. 130 300 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Villa Alemana (c. 97 300 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from San Antonio (c. 85 700 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Quillota (c. 67 800 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Melipilla (c. 63 100 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days sixty-one, in the past 30 days sixty-one and in the last 365 days eighty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 38 km SW of Valparaiso, Chile.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.9474° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -33.2566° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 20.87 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 38km 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 2017-04-27 08:24:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-04-27 08:47:32 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 340 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 0.349 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 68 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 us10008l8p Id of event.
Event Code 10008l8p An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008l8p, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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