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Minor earthquake: M3.4 quake has struck near Valparaiso in Chile

Posted by admin on May 5, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location -33.1007S, -72.094WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) was reported 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Valparaiso in Chile on Monday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/04/17 / 2017-04-24 06:17:58 / April 24, 2017 @ 6:17 am. Id of earthquake: us10008k7f. Event ids that are associated: us10008k7f. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 20.63 km (13 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -72.094 West, latitude -33.1007 South, depth = 20.63 km. The 3.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:17:58 / 1:17 am (local time epicenter).

The 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), 67 km (42 miles) from Villa Alemana (c. 97 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from San Antonio (c. 85 700 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Quillota, Limache, San Antonio. Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been ninety-three, in the last 10 days one hundred and four, in the past 30 days one hundred and four and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor 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: 44 km W of Valparaiso, Chile.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -72.094° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -33.1007° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 20.63 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 06:17:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-05-05 15:50:23 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 178 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 0.391 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 201 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10008k7f Id of event.
Event Code 10008k7f An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008k7f, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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