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Light earthquake 4.8 mag, 48 km SSW of Putre, Chile


Earthquake location -18.5806S, -69.7773WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 48 kilometers (30 miles) from Putre in Chile. The temblor was picked up at 03:21:43 / 3:21 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 94.19 km (59 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -69.7773 West, latitude -18.5806 South, depth = 94.19 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/10/17 / 2017-10-10 07:21:43 / October 10, 2017 @ 7:21 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us2000b3eu. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000b3eu.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tacna, Arica. Epicenter of the event was 81 km (50 miles) from Tacna (c. 280 100 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Arica (c. 186 000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop), Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 48 km SSW of Putre, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -69.7773° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -18.5806° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 94.19 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 48km SSW of Putre, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-10-10 07:21:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-21 12:09:35 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 354 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 0.353 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 100 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 us2000b3eu Id of event.
Event Code 2000b3eu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000b3eu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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