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Minor earthquake 3.9 mag, 124 km S of Punta Arenas, Chile


Earthquake location -54.2649S, -70.8099WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 124 km S of Punta Arenas, Chile (77 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000e40h. Unique identifier: us1000e40h. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -70.8099° West, -54.2649° South. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/05/18 / 2018-05-11 22:54:37 / May 11, 2018 @ 10:54 pm. The 3.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:54:37 / 6:54 pm (local time epicenter).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 124 km S of Punta Arenas, Chile.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -70.8099° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -54.2649° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 124km S of Punta Arenas, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-05-11 22:54:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-13 07:27:06 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 234 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 0.465 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.08 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 227 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000e40h Id of event.
Event Code 1000e40h An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000e40h, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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