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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near San Antonio in Chile

Posted by admin on August 2, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location -34.2034S, -72.228WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 87 kilometers (54 miles) from San Antonio in Chile. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:41:43 / 2:41 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -72.228 West, latitude -34.2034 South, depth = 18.36 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60004zae. Id of event: us60004zae. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 18.36 km (11 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/08/19 / 2019-08-02 06:41:43 / August 2, 2019 @ 6:41 am.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 89 km (55 miles) from San Antonio (c. 85 700 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Santa Cruz (c. 33 300 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Cartagena (c. 16 900 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Santa Cruz, Cartagena, San Antonio (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. 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: 87 km SW of San Antonio, Chile.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -72.228° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -34.2034° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 18.36 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 87km SW of San Antonio, 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 06:41:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-02 06:57:08 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 326 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 0.879 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 77 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 us60004zae Id of event.
Event Code 60004zae An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60004zae, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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