Moderate earthquake: M5.2 quake has struck near Puente Alto in Chile

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) strikes 66 kilometers (41 miles) from Puente Alto in Chile on Saturday. Exact location, longitude -69.8723° West, latitude -33.5218° South, depth = 127.45 km. The temblor was picked up at 09:10:59 / 9:10 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70009p3k. Id of event: us70009p3k. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 127.45 km (79 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/05/20 / 2020-05-23 13:10:59 / May 23, 2020 @ 1:10 pm.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was El Monte, Machalí, Los Andes. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). The epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Santiago (c. 4 837 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Puente Alto (c. 510 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from San Bernardo (c. 249 900 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from La Pintana (c. 201 200 pop), 80 km (49 miles) from Lo Prado (c. 104 300 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Peñaflor (c. 65 500 pop), 102 km (63 miles) from Los Andes (c. 56 900 pop).

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 two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world.

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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. 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: 66 km E of Puente Alto, Chile.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-69.8723° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-33.5218° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	127.45 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	66km E of Puente Alto, Chile	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-05-23 13:10:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-05-23 13:25:55	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.4	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	417	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	0.247	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.59 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	90	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	us70009p3k	Id of event.
Event Code	70009p3k	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70009p3k,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

5.2 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

-69.8723° West

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

-33.5218° South

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

127.45 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

66km E of Puente Alto, Chile

Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.

Time

2020-05-23 13:10:59

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2020-05-23 13:25:55

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

3.4

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

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

417

A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.

Network

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

0.247

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

0.59 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

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

us70009p3k

Id of event.

Event Code

70009p3k

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us70009p3k,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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