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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Calama in Chile

Posted by admin on June 28, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location -21.8253S, -68.5154WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 81 kilometers (50 miles) from Calama in Chile. Exact location of earthquake, -68.5154° West, -21.8253° South, depth 129.23 km. Unique identifier: us7000adb4. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000adb4. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/06/20 / 2020-06-28 01:38:15 / June 28, 2020 @ 1:38 am. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:38:15 / 1:38 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 129.23 km (80 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the event was 82 km (51 miles) from Calama (c. 143 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Calama. Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days eighty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 81 km NNE of Calama, Chile. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.5154° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -21.8253° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 129.23 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 81 km NNE of Calama, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-06-28 01:38:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-28 01:59:43 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 298 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 0.675 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.03 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 41 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 us7000adb4 Id of event.
Event Code 7000adb4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000adb4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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