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Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag strikes near San Antonio in Chile

Posted by admin on February 25, 2021 0 Comments

Earthquake location -33.8589S, -72.1422WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) strikes 57 kilometers (35 miles) from San Antonio in Chile on Thursday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 22.57 km (14 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 02:51:29 / 2:51 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -72.1422 West, latitude -33.8589 South, depth = 22.57 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/02/21 / 2021-02-25 02:51:29 / February 25, 2021 @ 2:51 am. Event id: us7000ddh2. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000ddh2.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Melipilla, Cartagena, San Antonio (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 58 km (36 miles) from San Antonio (c. 85 700 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Melipilla (c. 63 100 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Cartagena (c. 16 900 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. 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 twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 57 km WSW of San Antonio, Chile.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -72.1422° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -33.8589° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 22.57 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 57 km WSW of San Antonio, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2021-02-25 02:51:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-02-25 03:20:26 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 234 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 0.741 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.49 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 186 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 us7000ddh2 Id of event.
Event Code 7000ddh2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000ddh2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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