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Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near Vallenar in Chile


Earthquake location -27.9554S, -71.2263WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 82 kilometers (51 miles) from Vallenar in Chile. 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 06:29:23 / September 1, 2020 @ 6:29 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 21.96 km (14 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -71.2263 West, latitude -27.9554 South, depth = 21.96 km. The temblor was detected at 06:29:23 / 6:29 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us7000bfmb. Event ids that are associated: us7000bfmb.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Vallenar. Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 83 km (51 miles) from Vallenar (c. 44 900 pop).

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 has struck near. 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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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 82 km NNW of Vallenar, Chile.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.2263° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -27.9554° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 21.96 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 82 km NNW 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 06:29:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-09-01 13:43:01 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 385 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 0.282 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.46 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 80 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 us7000bfmb Id of event.
Event Code 7000bfmb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000bfmb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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