Quakedle
Puzzle #66 was 28 km NE of Villa Presidente Frei, Chile.
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USGS — Tectonic Plates of the Earth
How it scored
- Magnitude
- M5.2 — moderate class
- Magnitude type
- mb — body-wave magnitude
- Depth
- 100.0 km — intermediate
- Region
- Chile and the central Andes
- Tsunami indicator
- USGS tsunami indicator not set
- Felt reports
- 28 DYFI reports
- PAGER alert
- No PAGER alert color reported
- Tectonic plates
- Nazca Plate · South American Plate
- Tectonic context
- Chile lies above the Nazca–South America subduction zone, capable of very large interface earthquakes and deep events within the slab.
Also on the record
- USGS reports magnitude M5.2. Which standard descriptive class contains it?
- Moderate (M5.0–5.9)
- The hypocentral depth is 100.0 km. Which depth band is it in?
- Intermediate (70–300 km)
- USGS locates the event at “28 km NE of Villa Presidente Frei, Chile”. Which broad authored region matches?
- Chile and the central Andes
- What does the USGS tsunami indicator say for this event?
- No — USGS did not set the event’s tsunami indicator; that is not a forecast.
- Is this the largest earthquake in the supplied USGS week comparison?
- No — at least one supplied week event has a higher magnitude.