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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near La Ligua in Chile


Earthquake location -32.1257S, -71.9429WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 76 kilometers (47 miles) from La Ligua in Chile. Event id: us1000bmq3. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000bmq3. The epicenter was at a depth of 24.36 km (15 miles). Exact location, longitude -71.9429° West, latitude -32.1257° South, depth = 24.36 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:29:02 / 7:29 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 06/12/17 / 2017-12-06 12:29:02 / December 6, 2017 @ 12:29 pm UTC/GMT.

Event epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from La Ligua (c. 24 900 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Illapel, La Ligua. Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days one hundred and eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 76 km WNW of La Ligua, Chile.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.9429° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -32.1257° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 24.36 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 76km WNW of La Ligua, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-12-06 12:29:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-06 12:52:50 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.5 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 285 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 0.931 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.72 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 178 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 us1000bmq3 Id of event.
Event Code 1000bmq3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000bmq3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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