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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Valparaiso in Chile

Posted by admin on January 4, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -32.6625S, -71.751WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 43 kilometers (27 miles) from Valparaiso in Chile. Event id: us1000c0kz. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000c0kz. Exact time and date of earthquake 04/01/18 / 2018-01-04 06:01:26 / January 4, 2018 @ 6:01 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -71.751 West, latitude -32.6625 South, depth = 30.72 km. The temblor was picked up at 01:01:26 / 1:01 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 30.72 km (19 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Llaillay, Limache, Villa Alemana. Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Event epicenter was 44 km (28 miles) from Viña del Mar (c. 294 600 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Valparaíso (c. 282 400 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Quilpué (c. 130 300 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Villa Alemana (c. 97 300 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Quillota (c. 67 800 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Hacienda La Calera (c. 49 100 pop).

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 two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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. 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: 43 km NNW of Valparaiso, Chile.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.751° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -32.6625° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 30.72 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 43km NNW of Valparaiso, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-01-04 06:01:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-04 07:23:39 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 4 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.6 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 273 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 0.371 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.71 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 us1000c0kz Id of event.
Event Code 1000c0kz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000c0kz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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