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Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag strikes near Monte Patria in Chile

Posted by admin on July 16, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location -30.5578S, -70.3242WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 62 kilometers (39 miles) from Monte Patria in Chile. Global time and date of event 16/07/20 / 2020-07-16 16:12:50 / July 16, 2020 @ 4:12 pm UTC/GMT. The 3.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:12:50 / 4:12 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us7000apq6. Event ids that are associated: us7000apq6. Exact location, longitude -70.3242° West, latitude -30.5578° South, depth = 110.33 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 110.33 km (69 miles).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ovalle, Vicuña, Monte Patria. Epicenter of the earthquake was 84 km (52 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Monte Patria (c. 13 900 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Vicuña (c. 13 500 pop). Nearby 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 62 km ENE of Monte Patria, Chile. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -70.3242° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -30.5578° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 110.33 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 62 km ENE of Monte Patria, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-07-16 16:12:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-16 22:14:10 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 0.421 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.45 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 106 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 us7000apq6 Id of event.
Event Code 7000apq6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000apq6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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