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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 87 km SSW of Iquique, Chile


Earthquake location -20.9196S, -70.5277WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 87 kilometers (54 miles) from Iquique in Chile on Friday. Exact location of event, depth 25.52 km, -70.5277° West, -20.9196° South. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/12/20 / 2020-12-25 21:39:24 / December 25, 2020 @ 9:39 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000d31b. Unique identifier: us6000d31b. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 25.52 km (16 miles). The temblor was detected at 21:39:24 / 9:39 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Iquique. The epicenter was 88 km (54 miles) from Iquique (c. 227 500 pop). Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourty-eight 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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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 87 km SSW of Iquique, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -70.5277° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -20.9196° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 25.52 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 87 km SSW of Iquique, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-12-25 21:39:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-12-25 21:57:39 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 284 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 0.479 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.39 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 171 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 us6000d31b Id of event.
Event Code 6000d31b An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000d31b, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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