Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag strikes near San Clemente in Chile

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from San Clemente in Chile. Global time and date of event 07/05/19 / 2019-05-07 00:50:03 / May 7, 2019 @ 12:50 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70003hta. Id of event: us70003hta. The temblor was picked up at 20:50:03 / 8:50 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -71.5544 West, latitude -35.544 South, depth = 91.38 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 91.38 km (57 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 16 km (10 miles) from Talca (c. 197 500 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Curicó (c. 102 400 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Linares (c. 69 500 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Constitución (c. 37 900 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Cauquenes (c. 31 400 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Molina (c. 28 800 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Cauquenes, Teno, Constitución (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 has occurred nearby.

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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: 6 km W of San Clemente, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-71.5544° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-35.544° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	91.38 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6km W of San Clemente, Chile	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-05-07 00:50:03	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-05-07 01:16:32	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	234	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	0.244	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.05 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	131	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	us70003hta	Id of event.
Event Code	70003hta	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70003hta,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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