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Moderate earthquake, 5.9 mag strikes near Illapel in Chile

Posted by admin on September 18, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location -31.82S, -72.1346WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 94 kilometers (58 miles) from Illapel in Chile. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/09/17 / 2017-09-18 13:46:56 / September 18, 2017 @ 1:46 pm. The 5.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:46:56 / 8:46 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -72.1346 West, latitude -31.82 South, depth = 10 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us2000apwd. Event ids that are associated: us2000apwd.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Salamanca, La Ligua, Illapel (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 110 km (69 miles) from La Ligua (c. 24 900 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop), 111 km (69 miles) from Salamanca (c. 13 300 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days thirty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 94 km WSW of Illapel, Chile. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -72.1346° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -31.82° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 94km WSW of Illapel, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-09-18 13:46:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-18 14:05:26 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 6 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.01 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 538 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 1.147 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.98 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 72 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000apwd Id of event.
Event Code 2000apwd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000apwd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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