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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag strikes near Vallenar in Chile


Earthquake location -27.9815S, -71.4151WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 92 kilometers (57 miles) from Vallenar in Chile. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/09/20 / 2020-09-06 11:21:00 / September 6, 2020 @ 11:21 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 19 km (12 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude -71.4151° West, latitude -27.9815° South, depth = 19 km. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:21:00 / 11:21 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us7000biwi. Event ids that are associated: us7000biwi.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Vallenar (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) from Vallenar (c. 44 900 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days thirty-five, in the past 30 days thirty-six and in the last 365 days fifty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 92 km NW of Vallenar, Chile.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.4151° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -27.9815° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 19 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 92 km NW of Vallenar, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-09-06 11:21:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-09-06 11:34:51 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 340 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 0.374 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 157 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000biwi Id of event.
Event Code 7000biwi An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000biwi, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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