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Moderate earthquake, 5.5 mag has occurred near San Pedro de Atacama in Chile

Posted by admin on May 10, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location -22.7535S, -68.1578WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from San Pedro de Atacama in Chile. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 14:04:22 / 2:04 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.1578 West, latitude -22.7535 South, depth = 117.94 km. Global time and date of event 10/05/20 / 2020-05-10 18:04:22 / May 10, 2020 @ 6:04 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70009drp. Id of event: us70009drp. The epicenter was at a depth of 117.94 km (73 miles).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Calama (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 86 km (53 miles) from Calama (c. 143 100 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days fifty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 19 km NNE of San Pedro de Atacama, Chile.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.1578° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -22.7535° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 117.94 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19km NNE of San Pedro de Atacama, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-05-10 18:04:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-10 18:20:30 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.697 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 465 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 0.198 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.06 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 88 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 us70009drp Id of event.
Event Code 70009drp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70009drp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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