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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag was detected near Iquique in Chile

Posted by admin on May 24, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location -20.1787S, -69.9218WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was reported 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Iquique in Chile on Sunday. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:23:02 / 1:23 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 47.25 km (29 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us70009png. Event ids that are associated: us70009png. Global time and date of event 24/05/20 / 2020-05-24 17:23:02 / May 24, 2020 @ 5:23 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -69.9218 West, latitude -20.1787 South, depth = 47.25 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Iquique (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 23 km (14 miles) from Iquique (c. 227 500 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 23 km ENE of Iquique, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -69.9218° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -20.1787° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 47.25 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23km ENE 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 17:23:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-24 21:54:22 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 158 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 0.104 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 134 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us70009png Id of event.
Event Code 70009png An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70009png, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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