Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag has occurred near Illapel in Chile

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) strikes 43 kilometers (27 miles) from Illapel in Chile on Monday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 02/09/24 / 2024-09-02 01:03:22 / September 2, 2024 @ 1:03 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -71.5538° West, latitude -31.8507° South, depth = 35 km. The 3.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:03:22 / 1:03 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us6000np5x. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000np5x.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 73 km (46 miles) from La Ligua (c. 24 900 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Salamanca (c. 13 300 pop). 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 La Ligua, Salamanca, Illapel.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 43 km WSW of Illapel, Chile.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-71.5538° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-31.8507° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	35 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	43 km WSW of Illapel, Chile	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-09-02 01:03:22	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-09-02 01:56:35	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	234	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	28	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.528	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.58 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	172	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	us6000np5x	Id of event.
Event Code	6000np5x	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000np5x,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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