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Moderate earthquake: M5.1 quake has struck near Puerto Quellon in Chile


Earthquake location -43.1516S, -74.3168WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 57 kilometers (35 miles) from Puerto Quellon in Chile. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 22.74 km (14 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us700057x3. Unique identifier: us700057x3. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -74.3168 West, latitude -43.1516 South, depth = 22.74 km. The 5.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:36:34 / 7:36 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 24/08/19 / 2019-08-24 23:36:34 / August 24, 2019 @ 11:36 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the event was 88 km (54 miles) from Castro (c. 29 900 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Puerto Quellón (c. 21 800 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Chonchi (c. 12 600 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Castro, Chonchi, Puerto Quellón (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 57 km W of Puerto Quellon, Chile.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -74.3168° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -43.1516° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 22.74 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 57km W of Puerto Quellon, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-08-24 23:36:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-24 23:52:47 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 400 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 0.479 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 100 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 us700057x3 Id of event.
Event Code 700057x3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700057x3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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