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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Los Andes in Chile


Earthquake location -32.4528S, -69.9488WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 74 kilometers (46 miles) from Los Andes in Chile. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 22:41:07 / 10:41 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -69.9488° West, latitude -32.4528° South, depth = 106.2 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us70004518. Unique identifier: us70004518. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/06/19 / 2019-06-26 01:41:07 / June 26, 2019 @ 1:41 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 106.2 km (66 miles).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Felipe, Los Andes (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 80 km (50 miles) from San Felipe (c. 59 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Los Andes (c. 56 900 pop).

Every 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 two and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 74 km NE of Los Andes, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -69.9488° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -32.4528° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 106.2 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 74km NE of Los Andes, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-06-26 01:41:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-26 03:20:16 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -180 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 284 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 0.595 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 83 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 us70004518 Id of event.
Event Code 70004518 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70004518, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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