Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Putre in Chile

A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Putre in Chile on Friday. The temblor was detected at 13:01:06 / 1:01 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -69.7142 West, latitude -18.2244 South, depth = 120.56 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 120.56 km (75 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us60007erq. Event ids that are associated: us60007erq. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/01/20 / 2020-01-24 17:01:06 / January 24, 2020 @ 5:01 pm.

Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop), Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Arica, Tacna (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 62 km (38 miles) from Tacna (c. 280 100 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Arica (c. 186 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 16 km W of Putre, Chile.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-69.7142° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-18.2244° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	120.56 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	16km W of Putre, Chile	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-01-24 17:01:06	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-25 15:54:37	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	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	340	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	0.613	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.82 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	68	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	us60007erq	Id of event.
Event Code	60007erq	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us60007erq,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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