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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Los Ángeles in Chile

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Los Ángeles in Chile. The temblor was reported at 07:11:42 / 7:11 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us6000djmt. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000djmt. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 83.14 km (52 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 20/02/21 / 2021-02-20 07:11:42 / February 20, 2021 @ 7:11 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -72.2597° West, latitude -37.4636° South, depth = 83.14 km.

Event epicenter was 96 km (60 miles) from Chillán (c. 150 400 pop), 8 km (5 miles) from Los Ángeles (c. 125 400 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Coronel (c. 92 900 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Chiguayante (c. 82 500 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Lota (c. 49 800 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Angol (c. 44 900 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Curanilahue (c. 30 600 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Chillán, Curanilahue, Traiguén (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 8 km E of Los Ángeles, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-72.2597° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-37.4636° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	83.14 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	8 km E of Los Ángeles, Chile	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2021-02-20 07:11:42	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2021-02-20 07:25:27	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	4	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.6	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	313	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	1.031	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.26 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	113	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	us6000djmt	Id of event.
Event Code	6000djmt	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000djmt,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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