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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag strikes near Arica in Chile

Posted by admin on March 23, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location -18.8203S, -70.058WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Arica in Chile. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 76.32 km (47 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70008eui. Id of event: us70008eui. The temblor was picked up at 18:16:44 / 6:16 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -70.058 West, latitude -18.8203 South, depth = 76.32 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/03/20 / 2020-03-23 22:16:44 / March 23, 2020 @ 10:16 pm.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop), Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 92 km (57 miles) from Tacna (c. 280 100 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Arica (c. 186 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tacna, Arica.

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 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: 46 km SE of Arica, Chile.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -70.058° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -18.8203° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 76.32 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 46km SE of Arica, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-03-23 22:16:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-03-23 22:42:30 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 370 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 0.328 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.65 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 123 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 us70008eui Id of event.
Event Code 70008eui An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008eui, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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