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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Antofagasta in Chile


Earthquake location -23.3685S, -69.7931WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 69 kilometers (43 miles) from Antofagasta in Chile. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:04:47 / 1:04 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 72.62 km (45 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 20/08/19 / 2019-08-20 17:04:47 / August 20, 2019 @ 5:04 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -69.7931 West, latitude -23.3685 South, depth = 72.62 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us600057jc. Ids that are associated to the event: us600057jc.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 69 km (43 miles) from Antofagasta (c. 309 800 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Antofagasta.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 69 km ENE of Antofagasta, Chile. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -69.7931° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -23.3685° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 72.62 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 69km ENE of Antofagasta, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-08-20 17:04:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-20 17:40:46 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 0.636 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.94 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 mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us600057jc Id of event.
Event Code 600057jc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us600057jc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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