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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near San Antonio in Chile

Posted by admin on November 28, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -33.6865S, -72.2441WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 58 kilometers (36 miles) from San Antonio in Chile. Id of earthquake: us1000hxjc. Event ids that are associated: us1000hxjc. 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 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -72.2441 West, latitude -33.6865 South, depth = 10 km. The temblor was reported at 13:32:36 / 1:32 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/11/18 / 2018-11-28 18:32:36 / November 28, 2018 @ 6:32 pm.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Viña del Mar, Melipilla, Valparaíso (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 98 km (61 miles) from Viña del Mar (c. 294 600 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Valparaíso (c. 282 400 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from San Antonio (c. 85 700 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Melipilla (c. 63 100 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Cartagena (c. 16 900 pop).

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

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 58 km W of San Antonio, Chile.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -72.2441° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -33.6865° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 58km W of San Antonio, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-11-28 18:32:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-28 22:41:25 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 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 326 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 0.526 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 141 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 us1000hxjc Id of event.
Event Code 1000hxjc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hxjc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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