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Moderate earthquake, 5.8 mag has occurred near Vallenar in Chile

Posted by admin on September 7, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -28.892S, -69.9535WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 86 kilometers (53 miles) from Vallenar in Chile. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/09/18 / 2018-09-07 02:39:17 / September 7, 2018 @ 2:39 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 92.4 km (57 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 92.4 km, -69.9535° West, -28.892° South. The temblor was picked up at 22:39:17 / 10:39 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000ha1k. Id of event: us2000ha1k.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Vallenar. Event epicenter was 86 km (53 miles) from Vallenar (c. 44 900 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 86 km ESE of Vallenar, Chile.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -69.9535° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -28.892° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 92.4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 86km ESE of Vallenar, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-09-07 02:39:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-07 02:55:20 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.03 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 518 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 0.286 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.06 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 49 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 us2000ha1k Id of event.
Event Code 2000ha1k An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000ha1k, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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