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Minor earthquake, 3 mag has occurred near Iquique in Chile

Posted by admin on June 19, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location -20.3705S, -70.1783WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) strikes 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Iquique in Chile on Friday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/06/20 / 2020-06-19 05:39:16 / June 19, 2020 @ 5:39 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 30.91 km (19 miles). Exact location of event, depth 30.91 km, -70.1783° West, -20.3705° South. The temblor was detected at 05:39:16 / 5:39 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us6000aep7. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000aep7.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 17 km (11 miles) from Iquique (c. 227 500 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Iquique (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 17 km S of Iquique, Chile. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -70.1783° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -20.3705° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 30.91 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17 km S 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 2020-06-19 05:39:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-19 07:02:53 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 138 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 0.78 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.36 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 173 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 us6000aep7 Id of event.
Event Code 6000aep7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000aep7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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