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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Santa Cruz in Chile


Earthquake location -34.29S, -72.4118WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 103 km WNW of Santa Cruz, Chile (64 miles). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:58:50 / 12:58 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us60004zrd. Unique identifier: us60004zrd. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 19.59 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 02/08/19 / 2019-08-02 17:58:50 / August 2, 2019 @ 5:58 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -72.4118 West, latitude -34.29 South, depth = 19.59 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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: 103 km WNW of Santa Cruz, 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 -72.4118° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -34.29° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 19.59 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 103km WNW of Santa Cruz, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-08-02 17:58:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-02 18:25:47 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 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 1.053 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 154 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us60004zrd Id of event.
Event Code 60004zrd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60004zrd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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