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Minor earthquake 3.9 mag, 53 km SW of Calama, Chile

Posted by admin on March 9, 2021 0 Comments

Earthquake location -22.8146S, -69.2734WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 53 kilometers (33 miles) from Calama in Chile. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/03/21 / 2021-03-09 22:14:34 / March 9, 2021 @ 10:14 pm. Id of earthquake: us7000dhj4. Event ids that are associated: us7000dhj4. Exact location of earthquake, -69.2734° West, -22.8146° South, depth 89.16 km. The temblor was detected at 22:14:34 / 10:14 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 89.16 km (55 miles).

The epicenter was 53 km (33 miles) from Calama (c. 143 100 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Calama.

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

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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: 53 km SW of Calama, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -69.2734° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -22.8146° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 89.16 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 53 km SW of Calama, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2021-03-09 22:14:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-03-09 22:27:09 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 0.296 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.67 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 69 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 us7000dhj4 Id of event.
Event Code 7000dhj4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000dhj4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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