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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near San Antonio in Chile

Posted by admin on October 23, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location -33.8958S, -72.421WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 81 kilometers (50 miles) from San Antonio in Chile. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000avta. Id of event: us1000avta. Exact location of earthquake, -72.421° West, -33.8958° South, depth 15.35 km. The temblor was reported at 22:21:15 / 10:21 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 15.35 km (10 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 23/10/17 / 2017-10-23 03:21:15 / October 23, 2017 @ 3:21 am UTC/GMT.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cartagena, San Antonio. Epicenter of the earthquake was 82 km (51 miles) from San Antonio (c. 85 700 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Cartagena (c. 16 900 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 81 km WSW of San Antonio, Chile.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -72.421° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -33.8958° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15.35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 81km WSW of San Antonio, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-10-23 03:21:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-23 03:43:46 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 4.8 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 314 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 0.712 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 82 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 us1000avta Id of event.
Event Code 1000avta An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000avta, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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