Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Talagante in Chile

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Talagante in Chile. Exact location of event, depth 75.758 km, -70.8356° West, -33.6811° South. Unique identifier: us6000mwf1. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000mwf1. The temblor was picked up at 05:31:53 / 5:31 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 05/05/24 / 2024-05-05 05:31:53 / May 5, 2024 @ 5:31 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 75.758 km (47 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Event epicenter was 30 km (19 miles) from Santiago (c. 4 837 300 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Puente Alto (c. 510 400 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from San Bernardo (c. 249 900 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Rancagua (c. 212 700 pop), 22 km (13 miles) from La Pintana (c. 201 200 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Quilpué (c. 130 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Quilpué, Villa Alemana, San Vicente (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days four 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. 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: 8 km ESE of Talagante, Chile.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-70.8356° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-33.6811° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	75.758 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	8 km ESE of Talagante, Chile	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-05-05 05:31:53	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-05-06 05:24:51	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	3.1	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	287	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	31	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.159	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.44 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	60	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	us6000mwf1	Id of event.
Event Code	6000mwf1	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000mwf1,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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