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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag was detected near Puente Alto in Chile


Earthquake location -33.5923S, -70.4094WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was reported 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Puente Alto in Chile on Wednesday. Exact time and date of earthquake 11/11/20 / 2020-11-11 23:48:05 / November 11, 2020 @ 11:48 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -70.4094 West, latitude -33.5923 South, depth = 10 km. The temblor was reported at 23:48:05 / 11:48 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Unique identifier: us7000cdl4. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000cdl4.

Earthquake epicenter was 27 km (17 miles) from Santiago (c. 4 837 300 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Puente Alto (c. 510 400 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from San Bernardo (c. 249 900 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Rancagua (c. 212 700 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from La Pintana (c. 201 200 pop). Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Melipilla, Rancagua, Machalí.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. 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 nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 15 km E of Puente Alto, Chile.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -70.4094° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -33.5923° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15 km E of Puente Alto, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-11-11 23:48:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-11-12 02:00:11 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 158 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 0.129 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.07 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 95 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 us7000cdl4 Id of event.
Event Code 7000cdl4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000cdl4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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