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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Calama in Chile

Posted by admin on September 20, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location -21.9607S, -68.6941WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 61 kilometers (38 miles) from Calama in Chile on Thursday. Exact location, longitude -68.6941° West, latitude -21.9607° South, depth = 122.56 km. Global time and date of event 19/09/19 / 2019-09-19 09:42:57 / September 19, 2019 @ 9:42 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us60005kwu. Event ids that are associated: us60005kwu. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:42:57 / 5:42 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 122.56 km (76 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Calama (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 60 km (37 miles) from Calama (c. 143 100 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 five, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days eighty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 61 km NNE of Calama, Chile.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.6941° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -21.9607° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 122.56 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 61km NNE of Calama, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-09-19 09:42:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-20 06:50:35 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 312 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 0.534 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 42 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 us60005kwu Id of event.
Event Code 60005kwu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60005kwu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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