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Light earthquake: M4 quake has struck near Cañete in Chile


Earthquake location -37.8967S, -73.3668WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Cañete in Chile. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 18:06:19 / 6:06 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 39.663 km (25 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/11/24 / 2024-11-19 18:06:19 / November 19, 2024 @ 6:06 pm. Exact location of event, depth 39.663 km, -73.3668° West, -37.8967° South. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000p6es. Id of event: us6000p6es.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 58 km (36 miles) from Angol (c. 44 900 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Curanilahue (c. 30 600 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Arauco (c. 24 700 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Lebu (c. 22 300 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Nacimiento (c. 21 200 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Cañete (c. 20 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was La Laja, Collipulli, Nacimiento (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 10 km SSE of Cañete, Chile. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -73.3668° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -37.8967° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 39.663 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10 km SSE of Cañete, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-11-19 18:06:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-11-19 18:32:44 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 246 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 33 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.908 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.38 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 187 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000p6es Id of event.
Event Code 6000p6es An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000p6es, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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