Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Curico in Chile

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Curico in Chile on Saturday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/10/18 / 2018-10-27 12:29:06 / October 27, 2018 @ 12:29 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 97.96 km (61 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000i5hd. Unique identifier: us2000i5hd. Exact location of earthquake, -71.1182° West, -35.0173° South, depth 97.96 km. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:29:06 / 8:29 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Javier, Rengo, San Clemente (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 67 km (41 miles) from Talca (c. 197 500 pop), 12 km (7 miles) from Curicó (c. 102 400 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Rengo (c. 38 100 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Santa Cruz (c. 33 300 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Molina (c. 28 800 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from San Vicente (c. 22 600 pop).

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 thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 11 km ESE of Curico, Chile.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-71.1182° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-35.0173° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	97.96 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	11km ESE of Curico, Chile	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-10-27 12:29:06	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-11-02 12:07:23	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	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	271	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	0.356	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.51 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	88	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	us2000i5hd	Id of event.
Event Code	2000i5hd	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000i5hd,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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