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Major earthquake, 7.3 mag has occurred near San Pedro de Atacama in Chile

Posted by admin on July 19, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location -23.1243S, -67.8715WA major earthquake magnitude 7.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 41 kilometers (25 miles) from San Pedro de Atacama in Chile. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pt24201000, at00sgul50, us7000n05d. Id of event: us7000n05d. The temblor was reported at 01:50:46 / 1:50 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -67.8715° West, -23.1243° South, depth 126.274 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/07/24 / 2024-07-19 01:50:46 / July 19, 2024 @ 1:50 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 126.274 km (78 miles). A tsunami warning has been issued near San Pedro de Atacama in Chile (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 132 km (82 miles) from Calama (c. 143 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Calama.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 15 major earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 7.0 to 7.9 may cause serious damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 41 km SE of San Pedro de Atacama, Chile.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 7.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.8715° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -23.1243° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 126.274 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 41 km SE of San Pedro de Atacama, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-07-19 01:50:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-07-19 02:04:55 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 7.086 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level yellow 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 1 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 820 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 ,pt,at,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 49 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.331 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.11 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 64 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 us7000n05d Id of event.
Event Code 7000n05d An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt24201000,at00sgul50,us7000n05d, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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