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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Calama in Chile


Earthquake location -21.1225S, -68.9385WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 148 km N of Calama, Chile (92 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.9385 West, latitude -21.1225 South, depth = 114.64 km. The temblor was picked up at 18:35:40 / 6:35 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us20009lwa. Event ids that are associated: us20009lwa. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/06/17 / 2017-06-11 22:35:40 / June 11, 2017 @ 10:35 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 114.64 km (71 miles).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days eighty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 148 km N of Calama, Chile.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.9385° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -21.1225° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 114.64 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 148km N of Calama, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-06-11 22:35:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-06-29 02:25:49 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 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 259 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 0.518 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.93 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 45 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 us20009lwa Id of event.
Event Code 20009lwa An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20009lwa, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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