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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag was detected near Taltal in Chile

Posted by admin on February 11, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location -24.7785S, -70.9789WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 85 kilometers (53 miles) from Taltal in Chile. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 35 km, -70.9789° West, -24.7785° South. Event id: us70007n2x. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70007n2x. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). The temblor was detected at 08:50:02 / 8:50 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/02/20 / 2020-02-11 13:50:02 / February 11, 2020 @ 1:50 pm.

Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Event epicenter was 86 km (53 miles) from Taltal (c. 10 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Taltal (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. 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 nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. 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: 85 km NW of Taltal, Chile.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -70.9789° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -24.7785° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 85km NW of Taltal, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-02-11 13:50:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-11 14:10:18 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 432 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 0.544 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.98 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 108 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us70007n2x Id of event.
Event Code 70007n2x An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70007n2x, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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