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Light earthquake 4.7 mag, 94 km NNW of Vallenar, Chile


Earthquake location -27.8369S, -71.2439WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 94 kilometers (58 miles) from Vallenar in Chile. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000hp6b. Unique identifier: us1000hp6b. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 21.43 km (13 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -71.2439° West, -27.8369° South, depth 21.43 km. The temblor was reported at 04:16:13 / 4:16 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/11/18 / 2018-11-08 08:16:13 / November 8, 2018 @ 8:16 am.

Event epicenter was 95 km (59 miles) from Vallenar (c. 44 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Vallenar (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 94 km NNW of Vallenar, Chile. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.2439° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -27.8369° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 21.43 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 94km NNW 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 2018-11-08 08:16:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-08 08:33:48 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 340 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 0.395 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.65 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 107 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 us1000hp6b Id of event.
Event Code 1000hp6b An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hp6b, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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