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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near La Ligua in Chile


Earthquake location -32.1581S, -71.8193WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 64 kilometers (40 miles) from La Ligua in Chile on Monday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 23.46 km (15 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -71.8193 West, latitude -32.1581 South, depth = 23.46 km. Event id: us1000f1ue. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000f1ue. The temblor was detected at 21:05:19 / 9:05 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/06/18 / 2018-06-26 02:05:19 / June 26, 2018 @ 2:05 am.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Quillota, Salamanca, Hacienda La Calera. Event epicenter was 97 km (60 miles) from Quillota (c. 67 800 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Hacienda La Calera (c. 49 100 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from La Ligua (c. 24 900 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Salamanca (c. 13 300 pop). Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 64 km WNW of La Ligua, Chile.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.8193° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -32.1581° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 23.46 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 64km WNW 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 2018-06-26 02:05:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-26 02:31:36 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 326 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 0.597 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 134 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 us1000f1ue Id of event.
Event Code 1000f1ue An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000f1ue, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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