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Minor earthquake 3.9 mag, 69 km E of Salamanca, Chile

Posted by admin on September 17, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location -31.7388S, -70.2379WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) strikes 69 kilometers (43 miles) from Salamanca in Chile on Sunday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -70.2379 West, latitude -31.7388 South, depth = 121.68 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 121.68 km (76 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 16:33:11 / 4:33 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/09/17 / 2017-09-17 19:33:11 / September 17, 2017 @ 7:33 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000apkd. Id of event: us2000apkd.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Salamanca (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Salamanca (c. 13 300 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).

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

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 69 km E of Salamanca, Chile.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -70.2379° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -31.7388° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 121.68 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 69km E of Salamanca, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-09-17 19:33:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-17 20:15:01 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -180 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 0.842 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.63 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 98 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 us2000apkd Id of event.
Event Code 2000apkd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000apkd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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