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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 76 km W of Iquique, Chile


Earthquake location -20.2006S, -70.8721WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 76 kilometers (47 miles) from Iquique in Chile. Event id: us1000ehx8. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000ehx8. Exact location of event, longitude -70.8721 West, latitude -20.2006 South, depth = 15.27 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:30:24 / 9:30 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 15.27 km (9 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 03/06/18 / 2018-06-03 14:30:24 / June 3, 2018 @ 2:30 pm.

Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Iquique. Event epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Iquique (c. 227 500 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 76 km W of Iquique, Chile. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -70.8721° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -20.2006° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15.27 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 76km W 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 2018-06-03 14:30:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-03 14:48:14 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 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 284 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 0.699 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 154 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000ehx8 Id of event.
Event Code 1000ehx8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000ehx8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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