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Minor earthquake 3.1 mag, 35 km NW of Iquique, Chile

Posted by admin on January 22, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location -19.9649S, -70.3445WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Iquique in Chile. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:45:00 / 11:45 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 35 km, -70.3445° West, -19.9649° South. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 22/01/20 / 2020-01-22 03:45:00 / January 22, 2020 @ 3:45 am. Unique identifier: us60007cku. Ids that are associated to the event: us60007cku.

Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 36 km (22 miles) from Iquique (c. 227 500 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Iquique.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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. 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: 35 km NW of Iquique, Chile.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -70.3445° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -19.9649° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 35km NW of Iquique, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-01-22 03:45:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-22 04:11:33 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 148 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 0.53 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.29 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 183 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us60007cku Id of event.
Event Code 60007cku An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007cku, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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