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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 32 km NW of La Ligua, Chile

Posted by admin on October 31, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location -32.255S, -71.4877WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 32 kilometers (20 miles) from La Ligua in Chile on Thursday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 31/10/19 / 2019-10-31 22:09:14 / October 31, 2019 @ 10:09 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 45.89 km (29 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us700061ti. Id of event: us700061ti. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:09:14 / 6:09 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 45.89 km, -71.4877° West, -32.255° South.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Felipe, Quilpué, Villa Alemana. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 86 km (53 miles) from Viña del Mar (c. 294 600 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Valparaíso (c. 282 400 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Quilpué (c. 130 300 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Villa Alemana (c. 97 300 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Quillota (c. 67 800 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from San Felipe (c. 59 300 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Hacienda La Calera (c. 49 100 pop).

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 three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 32 km NW of La Ligua, Chile.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.4877° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -32.255° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 45.89 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 32km NW of La Ligua, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-10-31 22:09:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-31 22:38:23 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 0.345 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 75 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 us700061ti Id of event.
Event Code 700061ti An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700061ti, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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