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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag strikes near Ollagüe in Chile


Earthquake location -21.7442S, -68.5302WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 64 kilometers (40 miles) from Ollagüe in Chile. Unique identifier: us7000nn2i. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000nn2i. The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:38:05 / 5:38 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 25/10/24 / 2024-10-25 05:38:05 / October 25, 2024 @ 5:38 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 127.376 km (79 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -68.5302° West, latitude -21.7442° South, depth = 127.376 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Calama. Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 89 km (55 miles) from Calama (c. 143 100 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days sixty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 64 km SSW of Ollagüe, Chile.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.5302° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -21.7442° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 127.376 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 64 km SSW of Ollagüe, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-10-25 05:38:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-10-25 05:55:52 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 385 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 71 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.663 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.22 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 43 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000nn2i Id of event.
Event Code 7000nn2i An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nn2i, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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