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Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag has occurred near Coquimbo in Chile


Earthquake location -30.163S, -72.1818WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 84 kilometers (52 miles) from Coquimbo in Chile. Global time and date of event 27/06/20 / 2020-06-27 20:07:12 / June 27, 2020 @ 8:07 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us7000ad74. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000ad74. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -72.1818 West, latitude -30.163 South, depth = 10.04 km. The 3.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:07:12 / 8:07 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10.04 km (6 miles).

Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Coquimbo.

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

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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. 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: 84 km WSW of Coquimbo, Chile.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -72.1818° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -30.163° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.04 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 84 km WSW of Coquimbo, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-06-27 20:07:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-27 21:33:09 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 234 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 0.694 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 196 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000ad74 Id of event.
Event Code 7000ad74 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000ad74, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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