Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Coihueco in Chile

A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Coihueco in Chile on Monday. Exact time and date of earthquake 30/09/24 / 2024-09-30 19:25:16 / September 30, 2024 @ 7:25 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000nhap. Unique identifier: us7000nhap. The epicenter was at a depth of 96.246 km (60 miles). The temblor was reported at 19:25:16 / 7:25 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -71.781 West, latitude -36.5004 South, depth = 96.246 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cabrero, Cauquenes, Linares (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 31 km (19 miles) from Chillán (c. 150 400 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Linares (c. 69 500 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from San Carlos (c. 31 500 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Cauquenes (c. 31 400 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Parral (c. 26 900 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Cabrero (c. 18 300 pop).

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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 14 km NNE of Coihueco, Chile.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-71.781° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-36.5004° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	96.246 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	14 km NNE of Coihueco, Chile	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-09-30 19:25:16	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-10-04 16:11:50	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	284	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	32	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.44	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.8 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	124	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	us7000nhap	Id of event.
Event Code	7000nhap	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000nhap,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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