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Light earthquake, 4 mag was detected near Calama in Chile

Posted by admin on January 26, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location -21.893S, -68.6241WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 71 kilometers (44 miles) from Calama in Chile. Global time and date of event 12/01/20 / 2020-01-12 13:16:14 / January 12, 2020 @ 1:16 pm UTC/GMT. 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 119.32 km (74 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -68.6241° West, -21.893° South, depth 119.32 km. The temblor was reported at 09:16:14 / 9:16 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70006yqk. Id of event: us70006yqk.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Calama (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 70 km (44 miles) from Calama (c. 143 100 pop).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 71 km NNE of Calama, Chile.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.6241° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -21.893° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 119.32 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 71km NNE of Calama, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-01-12 13:16:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-26 14:46:55 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 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 246 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 0.582 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.47 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 51 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 us70006yqk Id of event.
Event Code 70006yqk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006yqk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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