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Light earthquake, 4 mag strikes near San Pedro de Atacama in Chile

Posted by admin on September 29, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location -24.0398S, -67.9132WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) strikes 128 km SSE of San Pedro de Atacama, Chile (80 miles) on Saturday. The temblor was picked up at 04:00:26 / 4:00 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us70005n26. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70005n26. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.9132 West, latitude -24.0398 South, depth = 150.29 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/09/19 / 2019-09-28 08:00:26 / September 28, 2019 @ 8:00 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 150.29 km (93 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 two, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days eighty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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: 128 km SSE of San Pedro de Atacama, Chile. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.9132° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -24.0398° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 150.29 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 128km SSE of San Pedro de Atacama, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-09-28 08:00:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-29 06:40:47 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 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 1.109 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.04 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 91 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 us70005n26 Id of event.
Event Code 70005n26 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005n26, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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