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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 83 km WNW of Ollagüe, Chile


Earthquake location -20.9266S, -68.9924WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 83 km WNW of Ollagüe, Chile (52 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 01/05/24 / 2024-05-01 08:46:20 / May 1, 2024 @ 8:46 am UTC/GMT. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:46:20 / 8:46 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000mvfm. Id of event: us6000mvfm. Exact location of event, longitude -68.9924 West, latitude -20.9266 South, depth = 99.04 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 99.04 km (62 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 83 km WNW of Ollagüe, Chile.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.9924° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -20.9266° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 99.04 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 83 km WNW 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 08:46:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-01 12:00:59 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 312 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 58 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.477 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.93 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 138 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 us6000mvfm Id of event.
Event Code 6000mvfm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000mvfm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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