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Light earthquake 4.1 mag, 33 km SE of Molina, Chile

Posted by admin on August 17, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location -35.3396S, -71.043WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Molina in Chile. Global time and date of event 17/08/19 / 2019-08-17 00:09:25 / August 17, 2019 @ 12:09 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 101.26 km, -71.043° West, -35.3396° South. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 101.26 km (63 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us600056ai. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us600056ai. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:09:25 / 8:09 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Longaví, Santa Cruz, Linares. Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) from Talca (c. 197 500 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Curicó (c. 102 400 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Linares (c. 69 500 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Santa Cruz (c. 33 300 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Molina (c. 28 800 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from San Javier (c. 22 400 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 one and in the last 365 days twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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: 33 km SE of Molina, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.043° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -35.3396° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 101.26 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 33km SE of Molina, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-08-17 00:09:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-17 00:28:27 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 259 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 0.521 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.56 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 65 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 us600056ai Id of event.
Event Code 600056ai An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us600056ai, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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