Light earthquake, 4.9 mag strikes near Lebu in Chile

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was reported 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Lebu in Chile on Friday. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:27:06 / 8:27 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000cpsu. Id of event: us2000cpsu. Exact time and date of earthquake 26/01/18 / 2018-01-26 13:27:06 / January 26, 2018 @ 1:27 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -74.0282° West, -37.4435° South. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Coronel, Lota, Cañete (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 91 km (56 miles) from Coronel (c. 92 900 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Lota (c. 49 800 pop), 60 km (38 miles) from Curanilahue (c. 30 600 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Arauco (c. 24 700 pop), 38 km (23 miles) from Lebu (c. 22 300 pop), 68 km (43 miles) from Cañete (c. 20 200 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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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 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 WNW of Lebu, Chile.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-74.0282° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-37.4435° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	38km 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 13:27:06	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-01-26 13:53:51	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	7	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.8	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	373	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	0.964	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.91 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	mwr	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us2000cpsu	Id of event.
Event Code	2000cpsu	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000cpsu,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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