Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Earthquake breaking news, Light World Earthquakes Magnitude 4-4.9

Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near La Ligua in Chile


Earthquake location -32.1341S, -71.9729WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 78 kilometers (48 miles) from La Ligua in Chile on Saturday. The temblor was detected at 23:41:00 / 11:41 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 23.38 km (15 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 18/06/17 / 2017-06-18 04:41:00 / June 18, 2017 @ 4:41 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20009ne1. Id of event: us20009ne1. Exact location of earthquake, -71.9729° West, -32.1341° South, depth 23.38 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). The epicenter was 78 km (49 miles) from La Ligua (c. 24 900 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Illapel, La Ligua (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days one hundred and nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

How would you describe the shaking?

Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 78 km WNW of La Ligua, Chile.

Copyright © 2017 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.9729° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -32.1341° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 23.38 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 78km WNW of La Ligua, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-06-18 04:41:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-06-18 05:23:49 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 312 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 0.93 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.09 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 93 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 us20009ne1 Id of event.
Event Code 20009ne1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20009ne1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply