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Light earthquake, 4 mag strikes near Calama in Chile


Earthquake location -22.4386S, -68.7071WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Calama in Chile. The temblor was detected at 10:03:44 / 10:03 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/10/19 / 2019-10-30 14:03:44 / October 30, 2019 @ 2:03 pm. Event id: us600064v5. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us600064v5. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 98.65 km (61 miles). Exact location, longitude -68.7071° West, latitude -22.4386° South, depth = 98.65 km.

Epicenter of the event was 23 km (14 miles) from Calama (c. 143 100 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Calama (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).

Every 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 two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days sixty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 23 km E of Calama, Chile.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.7071° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -22.4386° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 98.65 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23km E 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 2019-10-30 14:03:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-31 05:43:02 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 0.706 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.89 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 82 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 us600064v5 Id of event.
Event Code 600064v5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us600064v5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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