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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Las Animas in Chile

Posted by admin on September 19, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -39.7791S, -72.9946WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Las Animas in Chile. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:28:07 / 7:28 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -72.9946° West, latitude -39.7791° South, depth = 63.7 km. Global time and date of event 19/09/18 / 2018-09-19 11:28:07 / September 19, 2018 @ 11:28 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000hh2h. Unique identifier: us2000hh2h. The epicenter was at a depth of 63.7 km (40 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the event was 89 km (55 miles) from Osorno (c. 135 800 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Valdivia (c. 133 400 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Villarrica (c. 31 600 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Las Animas (c. 30 000 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from La Unión (c. 26 300 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Panguipulli (c. 16 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pitrufquén, Osorno, Villarrica (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).

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 one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 19 km E of Las Animas, Chile.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -72.9946° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -39.7791° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 63.7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19km E of Las Animas, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-09-19 11:28:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-19 11:59:43 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 5 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3 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 299 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 0.347 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.44 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 68 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 us2000hh2h Id of event.
Event Code 2000hh2h An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000hh2h, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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