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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Calama in Chile

Posted by admin on November 27, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location -23.0384S, -68.8795WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 64 kilometers (40 miles) from Calama in Chile on Wednesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 107.497 km (67 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/11/24 / 2024-11-27 08:19:29 / November 27, 2024 @ 8:19 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.8795 West, latitude -23.0384 South, depth = 107.497 km. The temblor was reported at 08:19:29 / 8:19 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us7000nufp. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000nufp.

Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Calama. Event epicenter was 65 km (40 miles) from Calama (c. 143 100 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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 S of Calama, Chile.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.8795° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -23.0384° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 107.497 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 64 km S of Calama, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-11-27 08:19:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-11-27 14:35:04 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 26 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.651 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.89 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 82 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 us7000nufp Id of event.
Event Code 7000nufp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nufp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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