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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Calama in Chile

Posted by admin on July 8, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location -22.5598S, -68.7114WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Calama in Chile. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 115.069 km (72 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 05/07/24 / 2024-07-05 21:06:43 / July 5, 2024 @ 9:06 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us7000mxc3. Event ids that are associated: us7000mxc3. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:06:43 / 9:06 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -68.7114 West, latitude -22.5598 South, depth = 115.069 km.

Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Calama. Earthquake epicenter was 25 km (16 miles) from Calama (c. 143 100 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 24 km ESE of Calama, Chile.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.7114° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -22.5598° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 115.069 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24 km ESE 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 2024-07-05 21:06:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-07-08 02:58:07 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 271 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 16 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.628 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.54 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 68 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 us7000mxc3 Id of event.
Event Code 7000mxc3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000mxc3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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