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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Calama in Chile

Posted by admin on January 8, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location -22.4415S, -68.6768WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Calama in Chile. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.6768 West, latitude -22.4415 South, depth = 110.617 km. The temblor was picked up at 06:37:16 / 6:37 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 110.617 km (69 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000nzz9. Unique identifier: us7000nzz9. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/12/24 / 2024-12-19 06:37:16 / December 19, 2024 @ 6:37 am.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Calama (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 26 km (16 miles) from Calama (c. 143 100 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days sixty-seven 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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 25 km E of Calama, Chile.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.6768° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -22.4415° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 110.617 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 25 km E 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 2024-12-19 06:37:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-01-08 12:22:43 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 271 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 18 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.685 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.72 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 78 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 us7000nzz9 Id of event.
Event Code 7000nzz9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nzz9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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