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Light earthquake, 4 mag strikes near Calama in Chile

Posted by admin on May 25, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location -21.8368S, -68.5374WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was reported 80 kilometers (50 miles) from Calama in Chile on Friday. Unique identifier: us60003rkd. Ids that are associated to the event: us60003rkd. The temblor was detected at 02:23:57 / 2:23 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 24/05/19 / 2019-05-24 06:23:57 / May 24, 2019 @ 6:23 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 129.68 km (81 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.5374 West, latitude -21.8368 South, depth = 129.68 km.

Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Calama (c. 143 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Calama (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days seventy-seven 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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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 80 km NNE of Calama, Chile.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.5374° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -21.8368° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 129.68 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 80km NNE of Calama, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-05-24 06:23:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-25 05:02:37 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 246 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 0.655 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 91 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 us60003rkd Id of event.
Event Code 60003rkd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60003rkd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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