Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag strikes near Vallenar in Chile

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) was reported 188 km NW of Vallenar, Chile (117 miles) on Tuesday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000d5tl. Id of event: us6000d5tl. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/01/21 / 2021-01-05 16:05:42 / January 5, 2021 @ 4:05 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 16:05:42 / 4:05 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -72.2376° West, latitude -27.4971° South, depth = 10 km.

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 fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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. 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: 188 km NW of Vallenar, Chile.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-72.2376° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-27.4971° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	188 km NW of Vallenar, Chile	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2021-01-05 16:05:42	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2021-01-05 16:54:32	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	234	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	1.248	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.26 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	197	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	us6000d5tl	Id of event.
Event Code	6000d5tl	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000d5tl,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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