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Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag has occurred near offshore Coquimbo, Chile

Posted by admin on May 13, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location -31.2891S, -71.7711WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, offshore Coquimbo, Chile kilometers (0 miles) from offshore Coquimbo, Chile. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10008m3d. Id of event: us10008m3d. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 28.05 km (17 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/04/17 / 2017-04-29 22:15:56 / April 29, 2017 @ 10:15 pm. Exact location of earthquake, -71.7711° West, -31.2891° South, depth 28.05 km. The temblor was reported at 22:15:56 / 10:15 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Illapel (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 69 km (43 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop). 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. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days one hundred and nine 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. 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: offshore Coquimbo, Chile.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.7711° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -31.2891° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 28.05 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place offshore Coquimbo, 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 22:15:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-05-13 02:19:16 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 234 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 0.624 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.72 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 191 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 us10008m3d Id of event.
Event Code 10008m3d An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008m3d, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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