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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Coquimbo in Chile


Earthquake location -29.8061S, -72.1755WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 82 kilometers (51 miles) from Coquimbo in Chile. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/01/20 / 2020-01-08 21:13:35 / January 8, 2020 @ 9:13 pm. Unique identifier: us70006wjx. Ids that are associated to the event: us70006wjx. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 12.54 km (8 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -72.1755° West, -29.8061° South, depth 12.54 km. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:13:35 / 4:13 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 82 km (51 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from La Serena (c. 154 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was La Serena, Coquimbo (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each 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 four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days seventy-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 82 km WNW of Coquimbo, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -72.1755° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -29.8061° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.54 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 82km WNW of Coquimbo, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-01-08 21:13:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-08 22:01:19 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 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 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 0.821 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.3 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 195 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 us70006wjx Id of event.
Event Code 70006wjx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006wjx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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