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Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Coquimbo, Chile

Posted by admin on July 28, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -31.4169S, -71.573WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, Coquimbo, Chile kilometers (0 miles) from Coquimbo, Chile. Exact location of event, depth 47.72 km, -71.573° West, -31.4169° South. The temblor was picked up at 19:36:48 / 7:36 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 47.72 km (30 miles). Global time and date of event 27/07/18 / 2018-07-27 19:36:48 / July 27, 2018 @ 7:36 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us2000gfgm. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000gfgm.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Salamanca, Illapel. The epicenter was 45 km (28 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Salamanca (c. 13 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days fifty-six 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. There are an estimated 13,000 light 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 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: Coquimbo, Chile.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.573° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -31.4169° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 47.72 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Coquimbo, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-07-27 19:36:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-28 17:14:44 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 259 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 0.534 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.62 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 165 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 us2000gfgm Id of event.
Event Code 2000gfgm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000gfgm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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