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Minor earthquake, 3.7 mag was detected near Tarapaca in Chile

Posted by admin on October 6, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location -20.2207S, -70.3184WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) strikes near the coast of Tarapaca, Chile kilometers (0 miles) from Tarapaca in Chile on Monday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -70.3184 West, latitude -20.2207 South, depth = 33.94 km. The 3.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:28:20 / 7:28 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us6000c5tp. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000c5tp. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 33.94 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/10/20 / 2020-10-05 19:28:20 / October 5, 2020 @ 7:28 pm.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Iquique (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 19 km (12 miles) from Iquique (c. 227 500 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fifty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: near the coast of Tarapaca, Chile.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -70.3184° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -20.2207° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 33.94 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place near the coast of Tarapaca, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-10-05 19:28:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-10-06 02:16:02 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 211 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 0.366 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.38 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 177 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000c5tp Id of event.
Event Code 6000c5tp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000c5tp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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