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Moderate earthquake 5 mag, 80 km WSW of Ollagüe, Chile


Earthquake location -21.4533S, -68.9953WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes 80 km WSW of Ollagüe, Chile (50 miles) on Wednesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:24:50 / 1:24 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -68.9953° West, -21.4533° South, depth 101.013 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 101.013 km (63 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us6000mvda. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000mvda. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/05/24 / 2024-05-01 01:24:50 / May 1, 2024 @ 1:24 am.

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 80 km WSW of Ollagüe, Chile. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.9953° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -21.4533° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 101.013 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 80 km WSW of Ollagüe, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-05-01 01:24:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-09 04:11:31 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 7 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 387 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 106 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.411 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.63 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 32 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000mvda Id of event.
Event Code 6000mvda An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000mvda, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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