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Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag has occurred near Iquique in Chile

Posted by admin on July 21, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location -20.6883S, -70.1384WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) was reported 52 kilometers (32 miles) from Iquique in Chile on Tuesday. Exact time and date of earthquake 21/07/20 / 2020-07-21 04:03:38 / July 21, 2020 @ 4:03 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 40.43 km (25 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000as4r. Unique identifier: us7000as4r. Exact location of event, longitude -70.1384 West, latitude -20.6883 South, depth = 40.43 km. The 3.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:03:38 / 4:03 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 52 km (32 miles) from Iquique (c. 227 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Iquique (min 5000 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 52 km S of Iquique, Chile.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -70.1384° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -20.6883° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 40.43 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 52 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 2020-07-21 04:03:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-21 04:30:06 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 5 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 190 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 0.667 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.57 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 169 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 us7000as4r Id of event.
Event Code 7000as4r An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000as4r, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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