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Minor earthquake, 3.7 mag has occurred near Valparaiso in Chile

Posted by admin on October 12, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location -33.1261S, -71.6992WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Valparaiso in Chile. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 29.1 km (18 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000aqlx. Id of event: us1000aqlx. The temblor was detected at 02:49:25 / 2:49 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -71.6992 West, latitude -33.1261 South, depth = 29.1 km. Global time and date of event 12/10/17 / 2017-10-12 06:49:25 / October 12, 2017 @ 6:49 am UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was La Ligua, Lampa, Melipilla. Event epicenter was 18 km (11 miles) from Viña del Mar (c. 294 600 pop), 12 km (7 miles) from Valparaíso (c. 282 400 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Quilpué (c. 130 300 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Villa Alemana (c. 97 300 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from San Antonio (c. 85 700 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Quillota (c. 67 800 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 11 km SW of Valparaiso, Chile. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.6992° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -33.1261° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 29.1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km SW of Valparaiso, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-10-12 06:49:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-12 22:25:06 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 211 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 0.115 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 176 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 us1000aqlx Id of event.
Event Code 1000aqlx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000aqlx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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