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Light earthquake 4.8 mag, 44 km WNW of Lebu, Chile


Earthquake location -37.436S, -74.0994WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) strikes 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Lebu in Chile on Friday. Exact location of event, longitude -74.0994 West, latitude -37.436 South, depth = 10 km. Global time and date of event 26/01/18 / 2018-01-26 15:26:21 / January 26, 2018 @ 3:26 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000cptq. Unique identifier: us2000cptq. The temblor was reported at 10:26:21 / 10:26 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Coronel, Lota, Cañete (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 96 km (60 miles) from Coronel (c. 92 900 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Lota (c. 49 800 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Curanilahue (c. 30 600 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Arauco (c. 24 700 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Lebu (c. 22 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Cañete (c. 20 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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.

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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: 44 km WNW of Lebu, Chile.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -74.0994° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -37.436° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 44km WNW of Lebu, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-01-26 15:26:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-26 15:39:16 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 354 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 1 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.04 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 133 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 us2000cptq Id of event.
Event Code 2000cptq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000cptq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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