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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag has occurred near La Serena in Chile

Posted by admin on February 19, 2021 0 Comments

Earthquake location -29.3518S, -71.5508WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 67 kilometers (42 miles) from La Serena in Chile. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -71.5508 West, latitude -29.3518 South, depth = 36.22 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/02/21 / 2021-02-19 06:54:30 / February 19, 2021 @ 6:54 am. Event id: us6000diut. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000diut. The temblor was picked up at 06:54:30 / 6:54 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 36.22 km (23 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Event epicenter was 70 km (43 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from La Serena (c. 154 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Coquimbo, La Serena.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days thirty-eight 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 67 km NNW of La Serena, Chile. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.5508° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -29.3518° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 36.22 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 67 km NNW of La Serena, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2021-02-19 06:54:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-02-19 07:08:47 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 369 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 0.626 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 101 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000diut Id of event.
Event Code 6000diut An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000diut, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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