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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 67 km W of Coquimbo, Chile


Earthquake location -29.8743S, -72.0335WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 67 kilometers (42 miles) from Coquimbo in Chile. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/01/19 / 2019-01-20 09:23:32 / January 20, 2019 @ 9:23 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 18.28 km, -72.0335° West, -29.8743° South. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 18.28 km (11 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 04:23:32 / 4:23 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us2000j6l3. Event ids that are associated: us2000j6l3.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was La Serena, Coquimbo. Epicenter of the earthquake was 67 km (42 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from La Serena (c. 154 500 pop). Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days fifty-nine 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. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 67 km W of Coquimbo, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -72.0335° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -29.8743° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 18.28 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 67km W of Coquimbo, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-01-20 09:23:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-20 09:38:15 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 312 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 0.691 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 123 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000j6l3 Id of event.
Event Code 2000j6l3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000j6l3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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