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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Bulnes in Chile

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Bulnes in Chile. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 84.93 km (53 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -71.9801 West, latitude -36.9256 South, depth = 84.93 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/05/19 / 2019-05-17 01:09:08 / May 17, 2019 @ 1:09 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us70003md9. Unique identifier: us70003md9. The temblor was picked up at 21:09:08 / 9:09 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 37 km (23 miles) from Chillán (c. 150 400 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Los Ángeles (c. 125 400 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Chiguayante (c. 82 500 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Tomé (c. 46 700 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Penco (c. 46 100 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from San Carlos (c. 31 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tomé, Chiguayante, Penco (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 34 km SE of Bulnes, Chile. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-71.9801° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-36.9256° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	84.93 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	34km SE of Bulnes, Chile	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-05-17 01:09:08	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-05-17 05:09:34	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	298	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	0.625	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.73 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	94	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	us70003md9	Id of event.
Event Code	70003md9	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70003md9,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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