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Moderate earthquake, 5.7 mag has occurred near West Chile Rise


Earthquake location -41.2729S, -87.4941WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, West Chile Rise (0 miles). The temblor was picked up at 09:45:08 / 9:45 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 11.11 km (7 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -87.4941° West, -41.2729° South, depth 11.11 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 07/04/19 / 2019-04-07 15:45:08 / April 7, 2019 @ 3:45 pm. Event id: us2000kbur. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000kbur.

There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. 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 seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -87.4941° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -41.2729° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.11 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place West Chile Rise Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-04-07 15:45:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-07 16:03:55 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 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 0 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 500 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 10.262 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.94 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 61 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 us2000kbur Id of event.
Event Code 2000kbur An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000kbur, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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