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Light earthquake, 4 mag strikes near Salamanca in Chile


Earthquake location -31.9289S, -71.2013WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Salamanca in Chile. Exact location, longitude -71.2013° West, latitude -31.9289° South, depth = 71.13 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 71.13 km (44 miles). Id of earthquake: us600057jr. Event ids that are associated: us600057jr. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/08/19 / 2019-08-20 17:33:44 / August 20, 2019 @ 5:33 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 13:33:44 / 1:33 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was La Ligua, Illapel, Salamanca. Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Event epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) from La Ligua (c. 24 900 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Salamanca (c. 13 300 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 27 km SW of Salamanca, Chile.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.2013° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -31.9289° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 71.13 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 27km SW of Salamanca, 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 17:33:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-20 18:23:37 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 246 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 0.635 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.58 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 123 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 us600057jr Id of event.
Event Code 600057jr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us600057jr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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