Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Vallenar in Chile

A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 102 km NW of Vallenar, Chile (63 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000bned. Unique identifier: us7000bned. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 05:11:54 / 5:11 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 15/09/20 / 2020-09-15 05:11:54 / September 15, 2020 @ 5:11 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -71.4478° West, latitude -27.8843° South, depth = 23 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 23 km (14 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days fourty-seven and in the last 365 days sixty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 102 km NW of Vallenar, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-71.4478° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-27.8843° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	23 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	102 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	2020-09-15 05:11:54	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-09-15 05:39:34	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	312	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	0.459	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.53 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	146	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	us7000bned	Id of event.
Event Code	7000bned	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000bned,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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