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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Curico in Chile

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Curico in Chile on Saturday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:10:29 / 6:10 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -71.1128° West, -35.059° South, depth 102.78 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 102.78 km (64 miles). Unique identifier: us70006usv. Ids that are associated to the event: us70006usv. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/01/20 / 2020-01-04 22:10:29 / January 4, 2020 @ 10:10 pm.

Event epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from Talca (c. 197 500 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Curicó (c. 102 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Rengo (c. 38 100 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Santa Cruz (c. 33 300 pop), 17 km (10 miles) from Molina (c. 28 800 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from San Vicente (c. 22 600 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Javier, Rengo, San Vicente (min 5000 pop).

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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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: 13 km SE of Curico, Chile.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-71.1128° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-35.059° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	102.78 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	13km SE of Curico, Chile	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-01-04 22:10:29	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-04 22:27:36	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	298	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	0.38	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.54 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	81	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	us70006usv	Id of event.
Event Code	70006usv	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70006usv,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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