Light earthquake, 4.1 mag has occurred near La Ligua in Chile

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was reported 56 kilometers (35 miles) from La Ligua in Chile on Friday. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:49:20 / 10:49 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us7000myui. Event ids that are associated: us7000myui. Global time and date of event 12/07/24 / 2024-07-12 10:49:20 / July 12, 2024 @ 10:49 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 29.893 km (19 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -71.8279 West, latitude -32.4016 South, depth = 29.893 km.

Event epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Viña del Mar (c. 294 600 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Valparaíso (c. 282 400 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Quilpué (c. 130 300 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Villa Alemana (c. 97 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Quillota (c. 67 800 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Hacienda La Calera (c. 49 100 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Limache, Villa Alemana, Quilpué.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 56 km W of La Ligua, Chile.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-71.8279° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-32.4016° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	29.893 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	56 km W of La Ligua, Chile	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-07-12 10:49:20	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-07-19 08:53:11	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	259	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	25	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.638	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.81 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	189	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	us7000myui	Id of event.
Event Code	7000myui	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000myui,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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