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Minor earthquake 3.8 mag, 68 km SSE of Iquique, Chile

Posted by admin on March 8, 2021 0 Comments

Earthquake location -20.7778S, -69.8889WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 68 kilometers (42 miles) from Iquique in Chile. The 3.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:25:01 / 5:25 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us7000dh4p. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000dh4p. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/03/21 / 2021-03-08 17:25:01 / March 8, 2021 @ 5:25 pm. Exact location, longitude -69.8889° West, latitude -20.7778° South, depth = 69.49 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 69.49 km (43 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Iquique (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 67 km (42 miles) from Iquique (c. 227 500 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days eighty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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 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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 68 km SSE of Iquique, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -69.8889° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -20.7778° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 69.49 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 68 km SSE 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 2021-03-08 17:25:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-03-08 22:58:24 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 2 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 223 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 0.345 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.6 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 115 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 us7000dh4p Id of event.
Event Code 7000dh4p An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000dh4p, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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