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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Machalí in Chile

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Machalí in Chile on Saturday. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000d4w8. Unique identifier: us6000d4w8. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/01/21 / 2021-01-02 00:26:19 / January 2, 2021 @ 12:26 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -70.5107 West, latitude -34.4012 South, depth = 124.54 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 124.54 km (77 miles). The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:26:19 / 12:26 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Peñaflor, Rauco, Curicó. Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 88 km (55 miles) from Puente Alto (c. 510 400 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from San Bernardo (c. 249 900 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Rancagua (c. 212 700 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from La Pintana (c. 201 200 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Curicó (c. 102 400 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Peñaflor (c. 65 500 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Buin (c. 55 400 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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 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: 27 km SSE of Machalí, Chile.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-70.5107° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-34.4012° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	124.54 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	27 km SSE of Machalí, Chile	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2021-01-02 00:26:19	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2021-01-02 00:41:56	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	326	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	0.419	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.63 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	127	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	us6000d4w8	Id of event.
Event Code	6000d4w8	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000d4w8,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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