Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Valparaíso in Chile

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Valparaíso in Chile on Sunday. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:08:40 / 6:08 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -71.9013° West, -32.9157° South. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000bbji. Id of event: us6000bbji. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/08/20 / 2020-08-09 18:08:40 / August 9, 2020 @ 6:08 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 35 km (22 miles) from Viña del Mar (c. 294 600 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Valparaíso (c. 282 400 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Quilpué (c. 130 300 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Villa Alemana (c. 97 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from San Antonio (c. 85 700 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Quillota (c. 67 800 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Llaillay, La Ligua, San Antonio (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 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: 28 km WNW of Valparaíso, Chile.

Chile La Ligua Llaillay Quillota Quilpue San Antonio Valparaiso Villa Alemana Vina del Mar

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-71.9013° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-32.9157° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	28 km WNW of Valparaíso, Chile	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-08-09 18:08:40	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-08-23 14:46:52	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	284	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	0.726	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.75 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	166	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	us6000bbji	Id of event.
Event Code	6000bbji	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000bbji,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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