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Minor earthquake, 3.7 mag was detected near Illapel in Chile

Posted by admin on October 23, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location -31.4311S, -71.7572WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) strikes 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Illapel in Chile on Wednesday. The temblor was picked up at 16:33:31 / 4:33 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 36.81 km, -71.7572° West, -31.4311° South. Id of earthquake: us600061zg. Event ids that are associated: us600061zg. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/10/19 / 2019-10-23 20:33:31 / October 23, 2019 @ 8:33 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 36.81 km (23 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Salamanca, Illapel (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). The epicenter was 60 km (37 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Salamanca (c. 13 300 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fifty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 60 km WNW of Illapel, Chile.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.7572° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -31.4311° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 36.81 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 60km WNW of Illapel, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-10-23 20:33:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-23 20:53:21 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 211 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 0.686 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.49 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 192 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 us600061zg Id of event.
Event Code 600061zg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us600061zg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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