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Minor earthquake: M3.6 quake has struck near Iquique in Chile


Earthquake location -20.1037S, -70.2284WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Iquique in Chile. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/02/21 / 2021-02-15 22:43:07 / February 15, 2021 @ 10:43 pm. The 3.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:43:07 / 10:43 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -70.2284 West, latitude -20.1037 South, depth = 40.49 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 40.49 km (25 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000dhx8. Unique identifier: us6000dhx8.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Iquique (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). The epicenter was 16 km (10 miles) from Iquique (c. 227 500 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days seventy-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 14 km NW of Iquique, Chile.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -70.2284° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -20.1037° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 40.49 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14 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 2021-02-15 22:43:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-02-17 00:37:46 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 10 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.5 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 202 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 0.461 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.72 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 ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000dhx8 Id of event.
Event Code 6000dhx8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000dhx8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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