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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Calama in Chile


Earthquake location -21.7096S, -68.4389WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 98 km NNE of Calama, Chile (61 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 10/05/18 / 2018-05-10 20:00:32 / May 10, 2018 @ 8:00 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000e2bi. Id of event: us1000e2bi. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:00:32 / 4:00 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 152.42 km (95 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.4389 West, latitude -21.7096 South, depth = 152.42 km.

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 98 km NNE of Calama, Chile.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.4389° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -21.7096° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 152.42 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 98km NNE of Calama, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-05-10 20:00:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-10 23:06:36 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 312 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 0.751 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 73 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 us1000e2bi Id of event.
Event Code 1000e2bi An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000e2bi, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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