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Minor earthquake, 3.6 mag has occurred near Alto Hospicio in Chile

Posted by admin on March 15, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location -20.2772S, -70.0833WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) was reported 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Alto Hospicio in Chile on Friday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 49.19 km (31 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -70.0833 West, latitude -20.2772 South, depth = 49.19 km. Unique identifier: us6000pyt4. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000pyt4. Global time and date of event 14/03/25 / 2025-03-14 13:35:04 / March 14, 2025 @ 1:35 pm UTC/GMT. The 3.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:35:04 / 1:35 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Iquique (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 9 km (5 miles) from Iquique (c. 227 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 2 km ESE of Alto Hospicio, Chile.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -70.0833° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -20.2772° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 49.19 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2 km ESE of Alto Hospicio, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-03-14 13:35:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-03-15 05:06:20 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 4 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.9 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 201 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 11 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.545 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.53 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 164 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000pyt4 Id of event.
Event Code 6000pyt4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pyt4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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