Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Los Andes in Chile

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 86 kilometers (53 miles) from Los Andes in Chile on Sunday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/12/18 / 2018-12-30 12:25:23 / December 30, 2018 @ 12:25 pm. Id of earthquake: us2000iz7n. Event ids that are associated: us2000iz7n. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 09:25:23 / 9:25 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 115.09 km (72 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -70.0517° West, -32.2086° South, depth 115.09 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Felipe, Los Andes. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Event epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from San Felipe (c. 59 300 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Los Andes (c. 56 900 pop).

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

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-70.0517° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-32.2086° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	115.09 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	86km NE of Los Andes, Chile	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-12-30 12:25:23	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-01-23 06:06:11	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-180	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	284	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	0.696	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	67	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	us2000iz7n	Id of event.
Event Code	2000iz7n	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000iz7n,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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