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Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag has occurred near Coquimbo in Chile

Posted by admin on January 16, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location -29.8711S, -72.1161WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 75 kilometers (47 miles) from Coquimbo in Chile. Global time and date of event 16/01/20 / 2020-01-16 07:11:40 / January 16, 2020 @ 7:11 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 10.21 km, -72.1161° West, -29.8711° South. The temblor was detected at 02:11:40 / 2:11 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10.21 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us700070rc. Event ids that are associated: us700070rc.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was La Serena, Coquimbo. Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 75 km (47 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from La Serena (c. 154 500 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 75 km W of Coquimbo, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -72.1161° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -29.8711° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.21 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 75km W 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 2020-01-16 07:11:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-16 08:08:32 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 234 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 0.763 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 207 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 us700070rc Id of event.
Event Code 700070rc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700070rc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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