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Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag has occurred near Alto Hospicio in Chile

Posted by admin on October 7, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location -20.3142S, -69.9777WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Alto Hospicio in Chile. Exact location of event, longitude -69.9777 West, latitude -20.3142 South, depth = 56.507 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/10/24 / 2024-10-06 20:40:19 / October 6, 2024 @ 8:40 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 56.507 km (35 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000nwxz. Unique identifier: us6000nwxz. The 3.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:40:19 / 8:40 pm (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 20 km (12 miles) from Iquique (c. 227 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Iquique (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 14 km ESE of Alto Hospicio, Chile.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -69.9777° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -20.3142° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 56.507 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14 km ESE of Alto Hospicio, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-10-06 20:40:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-10-07 16:04:12 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.3 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 14 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.15 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.35 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 88 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 us6000nwxz Id of event.
Event Code 6000nwxz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000nwxz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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