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Minor World Earthquakes Magnitude -3.9

Minor earthquake 3.9 mag, 89 km W of Iquique, Chile


Earthquake location -20.1089S, -70.9926WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) strikes 89 km W of Iquique, Chile (55 miles) on Wednesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 12.92 km (8 miles). The temblor was picked up at 17:46:24 / 5:46 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/07/17 / 2017-07-19 22:46:24 / July 19, 2017 @ 10:46 pm. Exact location of earthquake, -70.9926° West, -20.1089° South, depth 12.92 km. Id of earthquake: us2000a0t0. Event ids that are associated: us2000a0t0.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. 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: 89 km W of Iquique, Chile.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -70.9926° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -20.1089° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.92 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 89km W 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 2017-07-19 22:46:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-08-04 00:49:10 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 0.825 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.27 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 203 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 us2000a0t0 Id of event.
Event Code 2000a0t0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000a0t0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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