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Minor earthquake, 3.6 mag has occurred near Iquique in Chile

Posted by admin on April 25, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location -20.4902S, -70.4349WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) was reported 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Iquique in Chile on Saturday. The temblor was reported at 15:34:41 / 3:34 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 31.52 km (20 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -70.4349° West, latitude -20.4902° South, depth = 31.52 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/04/20 / 2020-04-25 20:34:41 / April 25, 2020 @ 8:34 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60009cdt. Id of event: us60009cdt.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Iquique (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 43 km (27 miles) from Iquique (c. 227 500 pop). Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 42 km SW of Iquique, Chile.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -70.4349° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -20.4902° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 31.52 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 42km SW of Iquique, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-04-25 20:34:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-25 21:12:39 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 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 200 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 0.249 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.31 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 156 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us60009cdt Id of event.
Event Code 60009cdt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60009cdt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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