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

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, offshore Valparaiso, Chile kilometers (0 miles) from offshore Valparaiso, Chile. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -72.3861 West, latitude -32.9235 South, depth = 4.99 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 4.99 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us10008pjg. Event ids that are associated: us10008pjg. Global time and date of event 05/05/17 / 2017-05-05 01:34:43 / May 5, 2017 @ 1:34 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 01:34:43 / 1:34 am (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Viña del Mar, Valparaíso. The epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Viña del Mar (c. 294 600 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Valparaíso (c. 282 400 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days sixty-three, in the past 30 days one hundred and twelve and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: offshore Valparaiso, Chile.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-72.3861° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-32.9235° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	4.99 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	offshore 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	2017-05-05 01:34:43	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-05-17 23:47:54	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	0.637	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.74 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	178	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	us10008pjg	Id of event.
Event Code	10008pjg	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10008pjg,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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