M7.7 Earthquake Strikes Southern Chile
Posted by feww on December 25, 2016
Powerful earthquake rocks Los Lagos region, Chile
Magnitude: 7.7Mw [emsc]
Region: ISLA CHILOE, LOS LAGOS, CHILE
Location: 43.36ºS, 73.80ºW
Depth: 47km
Date time: 2016-12-25 14:22:28.2 UTC
Distances:
- 1,133 km S of Santiago, Chile / pop: 4,838,000
- 221 km S of Puerto Montt, Chile / pop: 161,000
- 31 km SW of Puerto Quellón, Chile / pop: 21,900
...PTWC TSUNAMI THREAT MESSAGE...
EVALUATION
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* AN EARTHQUAKE WITH A PRELIMINARY MAGNITUDE OF 7.7 OCCURRED IN
SOUTHERN CHILE AT 1422 UTC ON SUNDAY DECEMBER 25 2016.
* BASED ON ALL AVAILABLE DATA... HAZARDOUS TSUNAMI WAVES ARE FORECAST FOR SOME COASTS.
TSUNAMI THREAT FORECAST...UPDATED
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* TSUNAMI WAVES REACHING 1 TO 3 METERS ABOVE THE TIDE LEVEL ARE
POSSIBLE ALONG SOME COASTS OF
CHILE.
ESTIMATED TIMES OF ARRIVAL -------------------------- * ESTIMATED TIMES OF ARRIVAL -ETA- OF THE INITIAL TSUNAMI WAVE FOR PLACES WITHIN THREATENED REGIONS ARE GIVEN BELOW. ACTUAL ARRIVAL TIMES MAY DIFFER AND THE INITIAL WAVE MAY NOT BE THE LARGEST. A TSUNAMI IS A SERIES OF WAVES AND THE TIME BETWEEN WAVES CAN BE FIVE MINUTES TO ONE HOUR. LOCATION REGION COORDINATES ETA(UTC) ------------------------------------------------------------ CORRAL CHILE 39.8S 73.5W 1522 12/25 GOLFO DE PENAS CHILE 47.1S 74.9W 1531 12/25 TALCAHUANO CHILE 36.7S 73.1W 1548 12/25 PUERTO MONTT CHILE 41.5S 73.0W 1701 12/25
Grace said
CA-NV events >=M3.8
M4.1 – 29km WSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
2016-12-28 12:18:13 UTC 38.405°N 118.921°W 8.4 km depth
M5.5 – 26km SW of Hawthorne, Nevada
2016-12-28 09:13:47 UTC 38.377°N 118.896°W 8.6 km depth
M3.9 – 29km ENE of Bridgeport, California
2016-12-28 08:57:20 UTC 38.359°N 118.920°W 8.6 km depth
M3.8 – 28km ENE of Bridgeport, California
2016-12-28 08:29:39 UTC 38.370°N 118.937°W 2.8 km depth
M4.0 – 28km WSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
2016-12-28 08:26:06 UTC 38.389°N 118.905°W 9.3 km depth
M5.7 – 28km WSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
2016-12-28 08:22:12 UTC 38.392°N 118.899°W 12.0 km depth
M5.7 – 29km WSW of Hawthorne, Nevada
2016-12-28 08:18:00 UTC 38.375°N 118.904°W 8.2 km depth
KRT said
M4.1
73km WSW of Puerto Quellon, Chile
2016-12-26 00:43:29 (UTC)
22.0 km
M4.2
78km WSW of Puerto Quellon, Chile
2016-12-26 00:12:28 (UTC)
11.5 km
M5.2
56km WSW of Puerto Quellon, Chile
2016-12-25 22:54:33 (UTC)
5.7 km
M4.1
77km WSW of Puerto Quellon, Chile
2016-12-25 21:55:57 (UTC)
10.9 km
M7.6
39km SSW of Puerto Quellon, Chile
2016-12-25 14:22:27 (UTC)
34.6 km