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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Iquique in Chile

Posted by admin on May 24, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location -19.6734S, -69.4965WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 90 kilometers (56 miles) from Iquique in Chile. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/05/20 / 2020-05-24 21:40:31 / May 24, 2020 @ 9:40 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 103.06 km (64 miles). Id of earthquake: us70009pna. Event ids that are associated: us70009pna. The temblor was detected at 17:40:31 / 5:40 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 -69.4965 West, latitude -19.6734 South, depth = 103.06 km.

Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 91 km (56 miles) from Iquique (c. 227 500 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Iquique.

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days fifty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 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. 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: 90 km NE of Iquique, Chile.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -69.4965° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -19.6734° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 103.06 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 90km NE 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 2020-05-24 21:40:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-24 22:15:07 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.5 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 259 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 0.173 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.53 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 83 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 us70009pna Id of event.
Event Code 70009pna An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70009pna, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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