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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Molina in Chile

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Molina in Chile. The temblor was detected at 14:33:40 / 2:33 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 106.61 km (66 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 22/12/18 / 2018-12-22 18:33:40 / December 22, 2018 @ 6:33 pm UTC/GMT. Event id: us2000iwdj. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000iwdj. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -71.1687 West, latitude -35.3899 South, depth = 106.61 km.

Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Santa Cruz, Longaví, Chimbarongo. The epicenter was 44 km (28 miles) from Talca (c. 197 500 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Curicó (c. 102 400 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Linares (c. 69 500 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Santa Cruz (c. 33 300 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Molina (c. 28 800 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from San Javier (c. 22 400 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 twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 32 km SSE of Molina, Chile.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-71.1687° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-35.3899° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	106.61 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	32km SSE of Molina, Chile	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-12-22 18:33:40	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-12-22 20:09:52	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	259	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	0.424	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.8 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	53	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	us2000iwdj	Id of event.
Event Code	2000iwdj	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000iwdj,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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