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Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag was detected near La Serena in Chile

Posted by admin on August 28, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -29.6838S, -71.3684WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 27 kilometers (17 miles) from La Serena in Chile. The temblor was detected at 00:51:40 / 12:51 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 39.12 km (24 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us1000gigb. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000gigb. Exact location, longitude -71.3684° West, latitude -29.6838° South, depth = 39.12 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/08/18 / 2018-08-28 04:51:40 / August 28, 2018 @ 4:51 am.

Earthquake epicenter was 30 km (19 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from La Serena (c. 154 500 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Vicuña (c. 13 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ovalle, Vicuña, Coquimbo (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 27 km NNW of La Serena, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.3684° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -29.6838° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 39.12 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 27km NNW of La Serena, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-08-28 04:51:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-28 05:15:21 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 4 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 418 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 0.259 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.04 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 85 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000gigb Id of event.
Event Code 1000gigb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000gigb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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