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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Valparaiso in Chile

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 48 kilometers (30 miles) from Valparaiso in Chile. Global time and date of event 29/04/17 / 2017-04-29 01:37:15 / April 29, 2017 @ 1:37 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -72.1125° West, latitude -33.2078° South, depth = 17.58 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 17.58 km (11 miles). Id of earthquake: us10008lww. Event ids that are associated: us10008lww. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 20:37:15 / 8:37 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Quillota, Limache, Villa Alemana (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 56 km (35 miles) from Viña del Mar (c. 294 600 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Valparaíso (c. 282 400 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Quilpué (c. 130 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Villa Alemana (c. 97 300 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from San Antonio (c. 85 700 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Quillota (c. 67 800 pop).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 48 km WSW of Valparaiso, Chile. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-72.1125° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-33.2078° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	17.58 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	48km WSW 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	2017-04-29 01:37:15	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-04-29 02:06:13	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	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	298	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	0.439	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.67 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	161	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	us10008lww	Id of event.
Event Code	10008lww	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10008lww,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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