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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag strikes near La Ligua in Chile


Earthquake location -32.1886S, -71.5177WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 39 kilometers (24 miles) from La Ligua in Chile. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 32.73 km (20 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 02:43:40 / 2:43 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -71.5177° West, latitude -32.1886° South, depth = 32.73 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000e8gl. Unique identifier: us1000e8gl. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/05/18 / 2018-05-19 06:43:40 / May 19, 2018 @ 6:43 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Felipe, Villa Alemana, Quilpué (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) from Viña del Mar (c. 294 600 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Valparaíso (c. 282 400 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Quilpué (c. 130 300 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Villa Alemana (c. 97 300 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Quillota (c. 67 800 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from San Felipe (c. 59 300 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Hacienda La Calera (c. 49 100 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).

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 fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 39 km NW of La Ligua, Chile.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.5177° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -32.1886° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 32.73 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 39km NW of La Ligua, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-05-19 06:43:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-19 07:13:36 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 21 The total number of felt reports
CDI 5.1 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 411 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 0.838 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 70 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 us1000e8gl Id of event.
Event Code 1000e8gl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000e8gl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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