Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag has occurred near Iquique in Chile

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) strikes 151 km E of Iquique, Chile (94 miles) on Sunday. Exact location of event, depth 125.84 km, -68.7126° West, -20.461° South. Unique identifier: us2000dc2w. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000dc2w. Global time and date of event 04/03/18 / 2018-03-04 16:16:31 / March 4, 2018 @ 4:16 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 125.84 km (78 miles). The 5.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:16:31 / 12:16 pm (local time epicenter).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days sixty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 151 km E of Iquique, Chile. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.7126° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-20.461° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	125.84 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	151km E of Iquique, Chile	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-03-04 16:16:31	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-03-04 16:33:04	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	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	400	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	0.522	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.05 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	45	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mww	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us2000dc2w	Id of event.
Event Code	2000dc2w	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000dc2w,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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