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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag was detected near Taltal in Chile


Earthquake location -25.9247S, -70.7839WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was reported 65 kilometers (40 miles) from Taltal in Chile on Wednesday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/04/20 / 2020-04-02 02:30:42 / April 2, 2020 @ 2:30 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 72.31 km (45 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:30:42 / 10:30 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70008l5u. Id of event: us70008l5u. Exact location of event, depth 72.31 km, -70.7839° West, -25.9247° South.

Event epicenter was 88 km (55 miles) from Diego de Almagro (c. 18 100 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Taltal (c. 10 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Diego de Almagro, Taltal (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).

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. 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 was reported nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 65 km SSW of Taltal, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -70.7839° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -25.9247° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 72.31 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 65km SSW 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 2020-04-02 02:30:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-02 02:52:29 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 354 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 0.277 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.91 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 115 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 us70008l5u Id of event.
Event Code 70008l5u An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008l5u, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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