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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Calama in Chile


Earthquake location -21.9418S, -68.5083WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 71 kilometers (44 miles) from Calama in Chile. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:12:31 / 5:12 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 130.93 km (81 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -68.5083° West, -21.9418° South, depth 130.93 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000cqpe. Unique identifier: us6000cqpe. Global time and date of event 20/11/20 / 2020-11-20 05:12:31 / November 20, 2020 @ 5:12 am UTC/GMT.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Calama. Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Calama (c. 143 100 pop).

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

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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. 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: 71 km NE of Calama, Chile.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.5083° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -21.9418° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 130.93 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 71 km NE of Calama, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-11-20 05:12:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-11-20 05:38:39 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 298 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 0.696 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.62 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 72 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 us6000cqpe Id of event.
Event Code 6000cqpe An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000cqpe, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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