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Light earthquake: M4.9 quake has struck near Iquique in Chile


Earthquake location -19.4358S, -69.6514WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 101 kilometers (63 miles) from Iquique in Chile. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 91.55 km (57 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 04/07/17 / 2017-07-04 02:25:26 / July 4, 2017 @ 2:25 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100096jd. Id of event: us100096jd. The temblor was detected at 22:25:26 / 10:25 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -69.6514° West, latitude -19.4358° South, depth = 91.55 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Iquique (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). The epicenter was 101 km (63 miles) from Iquique (c. 227 500 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 101 km NNE of Iquique, Chile.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -69.6514° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -19.4358° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 91.55 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 101km NNE of Iquique, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-07-04 02:25:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-07-04 02:44:12 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 369 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 0.489 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 107 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 us100096jd Id of event.
Event Code 100096jd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100096jd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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