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Moderate earthquake, 5.7 mag has occurred near Vallenar in Chile


Earthquake location -27.8931S, -71.4787WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 103 kilometers (64 miles) from Vallenar in Chile. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000bfq3. Unique identifier: us7000bfq3. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/09/20 / 2020-09-01 10:31:50 / September 1, 2020 @ 10:31 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 12.11 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 10:31:50 / 10:31 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -71.4787 West, latitude -27.8931 South, depth = 12.11 km.

Epicenter of the event was 104 km (64 miles) from Vallenar (c. 44 900 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Vallenar. Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-four, in the last 10 days thirty-six, in the past 30 days thirty-six and in the last 365 days fifty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 103 km NW of Vallenar, Chile.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.4787° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -27.8931° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.11 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 103 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 2020-09-01 10:31:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-09-02 10:35:50 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 4.241 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 500 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 0.473 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.87 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 100 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000bfq3 Id of event.
Event Code 7000bfq3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000bfq3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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