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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Colbún in Chile


Earthquake location -36.1465S, -70.7734WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 75 kilometers (47 miles) from Colbún in Chile. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000nmst. Unique identifier: us7000nmst. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:23:15 / 4:23 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 32.975 km (20 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -70.7734 West, latitude -36.1465 South, depth = 32.975 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 24/10/24 / 2024-10-24 04:23:15 / October 24, 2024 @ 4:23 am UTC/GMT.

Earthquake epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) from Linares (c. 69 500 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Parral (c. 26 900 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from San Clemente (c. 13 700 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Longaví (c. 6 300 pop). 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 Parral, San Clemente, Longaví.

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor 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: 75 km SE of Colbún, Chile.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -70.7734° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -36.1465° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 32.975 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 75 km SE of Colbún, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-10-24 04:23:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-10-24 05:07:58 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 298 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 37 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.648 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.12 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 93 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 us7000nmst Id of event.
Event Code 7000nmst An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nmst, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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