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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 70 km SW of Cañete, Chile


Earthquake location -38.1581S, -74.0582WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 70 kilometers (43 miles) from Cañete in Chile on Monday. Exact location, longitude -74.0582° West, latitude -38.1581° South, depth = 22.504 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000nej6. Unique identifier: us6000nej6. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 22/07/24 / 2024-07-22 17:36:44 / July 22, 2024 @ 5:36 pm. The temblor was detected at 17:36:44 / 5:36 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 22.504 km (14 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lebu, Cañete. Epicenter of the earthquake was 71 km (44 miles) from Lebu (c. 22 300 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Cañete (c. 20 200 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 70 km SW of Cañete, Chile. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -74.0582° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -38.1581° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 22.504 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 70 km SW of Cañete, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-07-22 17:36:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-07-22 18:58:00 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 326 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 1.789 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.65 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 205 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 us6000nej6 Id of event.
Event Code 6000nej6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000nej6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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