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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Talcahuano in Chile


Earthquake location -36.1771S, -73.4989WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 68 kilometers (42 miles) from Talcahuano in Chile on Saturday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -73.4989 West, latitude -36.1771 South, depth = 7.23 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 13:36:53 / 1:36 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 7.23 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000buce. Unique identifier: us2000buce. Global time and date of event 25/11/17 / 2017-11-25 18:36:53 / November 25, 2017 @ 6:36 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Chiguayante, Concepción, Penco. Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 70 km (43 miles) from Talcahuano (c. 253 000 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Concepción (c. 215 400 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Chiguayante (c. 82 500 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Tomé (c. 46 700 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Penco (c. 46 100 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days eighteen 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. 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: 68 km NNW of Talcahuano, Chile.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -73.4989° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -36.1771° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.23 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 68km NNW of Talcahuano, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-11-25 18:36:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-11-25 19:36:35 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 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 271 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 0.621 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.43 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 154 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 us2000buce Id of event.
Event Code 2000buce An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000buce, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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