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Moderate earthquake: M5.2 quake has struck near Iquique in Chile


Earthquake location -19.9291S, -71.0932WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 104 kilometers (65 miles) from Iquique in Chile. Exact location of event, longitude -71.0932 West, latitude -19.9291 South, depth = 6.05 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/02/19 / 2019-02-06 17:56:48 / February 6, 2019 @ 5:56 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.05 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000je9g. Unique identifier: us2000je9g. The 5.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:56:48 / 12:56 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Iquique. Event epicenter was 105 km (65 miles) from Iquique (c. 227 500 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. 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 thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 104 km WNW of Iquique, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.0932° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -19.9291° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.05 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 104km WNW of Iquique, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-02-06 17:56:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-06 18:12:32 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 416 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 0.965 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 139 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000je9g Id of event.
Event Code 2000je9g An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000je9g, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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