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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag strikes near La Ligua in Chile

Posted by admin on December 7, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location -32.1618S, -71.4586WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was reported 38 kilometers (24 miles) from La Ligua in Chile on Wednesday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 52.83 km (33 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -71.4586° West, -32.1618° South, depth 52.83 km. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:46:30 / 4:46 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us2000c1b1. Event ids that are associated: us2000c1b1. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 06/12/17 / 2017-12-06 20:46:30 / December 6, 2017 @ 8:46 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Valparaíso, Quilpué, Villa Alemana. Epicenter of the earthquake was 96 km (60 miles) from Viña del Mar (c. 294 600 pop), 99 km (61 miles) from Valparaíso (c. 282 400 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Quilpué (c. 130 300 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Villa Alemana (c. 97 300 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Quillota (c. 67 800 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from San Felipe (c. 59 300 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Hacienda La Calera (c. 49 100 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days seventy-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 38 km NNW of La Ligua, Chile.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.4586° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -32.1618° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 52.83 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 38km NNW 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 20:46:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-07 01:09:42 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 355 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 0.871 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.64 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 126 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 us2000c1b1 Id of event.
Event Code 2000c1b1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000c1b1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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