Minor earthquake, 3.7 mag was detected near Illapel in Chile

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 72 kilometers (45 miles) from Illapel in Chile. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000bj1r. Id of event: us2000bj1r. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/11/17 / 2017-11-06 00:13:24 / November 6, 2017 @ 12:13 am. The temblor was picked up at 20:13:24 / 8:13 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -71.6577 West, latitude -31.1302 South, depth = 45.38 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 45.38 km (28 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 73 km (46 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Monte Patria (c. 13 900 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Monte Patria, Ovalle, Illapel (min 5000 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 four, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days seventy-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 72 km NW of Illapel, 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	-71.6577° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-31.1302° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	45.38 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	72km NW 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	2017-11-06 00:13:24	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-11-06 00:55:26	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	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	0.455	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.76 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	117	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	us2000bj1r	Id of event.
Event Code	2000bj1r	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000bj1r,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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