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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Salamanca in Chile


Earthquake location -31.9589S, -70.1291WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 81 kilometers (50 miles) from Salamanca in Chile. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -70.1291 West, latitude -31.9589 South, depth = 118.05 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 118.05 km (73 miles). Global time and date of event 18/01/21 / 2021-01-18 22:57:04 / January 18, 2021 @ 10:57 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000d17v. Unique identifier: us7000d17v. The temblor was reported at 22:57:04 / 10:57 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Salamanca. Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 81 km (51 miles) from Salamanca (c. 13 300 pop).

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

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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. 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: 81 km ESE of Salamanca, Chile.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -70.1291° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -31.9589° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 118.05 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 81 km ESE of Salamanca, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2021-01-18 22:57:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-01-18 23:26:44 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 0.723 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.16 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 71 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 us7000d17v Id of event.
Event Code 7000d17v An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000d17v, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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