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Moderate earthquake: M5.3 quake has struck near Iquique in Chile


Earthquake location -19.96S, -70.3536WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Iquique in Chile. The epicenter was at a depth of 60.64 km (38 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000dd81. Id of event: us6000dd81. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 30/01/21 / 2021-01-30 13:24:59 / January 30, 2021 @ 1:24 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:24:59 / 1:24 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -70.3536 West, latitude -19.96 South, depth = 60.64 km.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 37 km (23 miles) from Iquique (c. 227 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Iquique (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fifty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 35 km NW of Iquique, Chile.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -70.3536° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -19.96° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 60.64 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 35 km NW 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 2021-01-30 13:24:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-01-30 13:44:45 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 9 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.5 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 436 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 0.624 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 136 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 us6000dd81 Id of event.
Event Code 6000dd81 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000dd81, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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