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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Buin in Chile

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Buin in Chile. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 29/09/20 / 2020-09-29 14:24:31 / September 29, 2020 @ 2:24 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 86.17 km (54 miles). Unique identifier: us6000c2lq. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000c2lq. Exact location of earthquake, -70.832° West, -33.6973° South, depth 86.17 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:24:31 / 2:24 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Quilpué, Villa Alemana, Limache (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 32 km (20 miles) from Santiago (c. 4 837 300 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Puente Alto (c. 510 400 pop), 17 km (11 miles) from San Bernardo (c. 249 900 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Rancagua (c. 212 700 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from La Pintana (c. 201 200 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Quilpué (c. 130 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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. 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: 9 km WNW of Buin, Chile.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-70.832° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-33.6973° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	86.17 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9 km WNW of Buin, Chile	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-09-29 14:24:31	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-09-29 14:49:28	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	3	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.1	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	299	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	0.152	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.32 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	52	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	us6000c2lq	Id of event.
Event Code	6000c2lq	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000c2lq,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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