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Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag has occurred near Iquique in Chile

Posted by admin on August 16, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location -20.1647S, -70.0329WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Iquique in Chile. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 15/08/20 / 2020-08-15 19:42:36 / August 15, 2020 @ 7:42 pm. Event id: us6000bfgx. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000bfgx. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 45.17 km (28 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 45.17 km, -70.0329° West, -20.1647° South. The 3.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:42:36 / 7:42 pm (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 13 km (8 miles) from Iquique (c. 227 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Iquique.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days sixty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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: 13 km ENE of Iquique, Chile. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -70.0329° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -20.1647° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 45.17 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13 km ENE 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 2020-08-15 19:42:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-08-16 05:23:40 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 2.9 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 0.422 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.29 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 151 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 us6000bfgx Id of event.
Event Code 6000bfgx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000bfgx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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