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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag has occurred near La Ligua in Chile


Earthquake location -32.5009S, -71.6223WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 37 kilometers (23 miles) from La Ligua in Chile. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 14/09/18 / 2018-09-14 18:15:10 / September 14, 2018 @ 6:15 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -71.6223 West, latitude -32.5009 South, depth = 17.94 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 17.94 km (11 miles). The 4.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:15:10 / 2:15 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us2000heqr. Event ids that are associated: us2000heqr.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Felipe, Llaillay, Limache (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 59 km (36 miles) from Viña del Mar (c. 294 600 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Valparaíso (c. 282 400 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Quilpué (c. 130 300 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Villa Alemana (c. 97 300 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Quillota (c. 67 800 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from San Felipe (c. 59 300 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Hacienda La Calera (c. 49 100 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 37 km W of La Ligua, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.6223° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -32.5009° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 17.94 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 37km W 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 2018-09-14 18:15:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-14 18:40:13 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 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 355 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 0.28 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.96 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 149 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 us2000heqr Id of event.
Event Code 2000heqr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000heqr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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