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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 60 km ESE of Copiapo, Chile


Earthquake location -27.5746S, -69.7725WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Copiapo in Chile. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -69.7725 West, latitude -27.5746 South, depth = 88.64 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000d6fx. Id of event: us1000d6fx. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 88.64 km (55 miles). Global time and date of event 19/03/18 / 2018-03-19 16:36:19 / March 19, 2018 @ 4:36 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 12:36:19 / 12:36 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Copiapó. Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 60 km (37 miles) from Copiapó (c. 129 300 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 60 km ESE of Copiapo, Chile.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -69.7725° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -27.5746° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 88.64 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 60km ESE of Copiapo, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-03-19 16:36:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-19 17:13:33 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 298 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 0.41 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.36 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 36 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 us1000d6fx Id of event.
Event Code 1000d6fx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000d6fx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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