Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Ancud in Chile

A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Ancud in Chile on Sunday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 27.62 km (17 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -74.1973 West, latitude -41.7205 South, depth = 27.62 km. The temblor was picked up at 03:33:42 / 3:33 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us60007ajk. Ids that are associated to the event: us60007ajk. Global time and date of event 19/01/20 / 2020-01-19 07:33:42 / January 19, 2020 @ 7:33 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

The epicenter was 91 km (56 miles) from Castro (c. 29 900 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Ancud (c. 28 000 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Calbuco (c. 12 500 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Castro, Calbuco, Ancud (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 35 km WNW of Ancud, Chile.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-74.1973° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-41.7205° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	27.62 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	35km WNW of Ancud, Chile	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-01-19 07:33:42	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-19 08:00:38	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.1	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	285	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	0.627	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.11 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	175	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	us60007ajk	Id of event.
Event Code	60007ajk	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us60007ajk,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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