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Moderate earthquake, 5.4 mag strikes near San Antonio in Chile


Earthquake location -34.2181S, -72.3203WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 94 kilometers (58 miles) from San Antonio in Chile. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/08/19 / 2019-08-02 00:55:16 / August 2, 2019 @ 12:55 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 18.68 km (12 miles). The temblor was picked up at 19:55:16 / 7:55 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us60004z17. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60004z17. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude -72.3203° West, latitude -34.2181° South, depth = 18.68 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Cartagena, Santa Cruz, San Antonio. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 96 km (59 miles) from San Antonio (c. 85 700 pop), 99 km (62 miles) from Santa Cruz (c. 33 300 pop), 99 km (61 miles) from Cartagena (c. 16 900 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 94 km SW of San Antonio, Chile. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -72.3203° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -34.2181° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 18.68 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 94km 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 00:55:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-02 01:06:37 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.068 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 449 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 0.955 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.96 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 79 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us60004z17 Id of event.
Event Code 60004z17 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60004z17, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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