M6.8 - SOUTHERN EAST PACIFIC RISE

M6.8 - SOUTHERN EAST PACIFIC RISE

Preliminary Earthquake Report
Magnitude 6.8
Date-Time
9 Oct 2014 02:14:31 UTC
8 Oct 2014 19:14:32 near epicenter
8 Oct 2014 18:14:31 standard time in your timezone
Location 32.154S 110.815W
Depth 10 km
Distances
570 km (353 mi) SSW of Hanga Roa, Chile
3428 km (2125 mi) W of Lebu, Chile
3434 km (2129 mi) W of Ancud, Chile
3444 km (2135 mi) W of Chonchi, Chile
2039 km (1264 mi) ESE of Adamstown, Pitcairn
Location Uncertainty Horizontal: 0.0 km; Vertical 1.8 km
Parameters Nph = 91; Dmin = 575.5 km; Rmss = 1.11 seconds; Gp = 32°
Version = B
Event ID us b000sk6k
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Big one , already been downgraded from 7.1

No tsunami threat by the wY

Awful lot of earthquakes in that area lately... big ones, too.

originally posted by: signalfire
Awful lot of earthquakes in that area lately... big ones, too.

My thoughts exactly.

Pursuant to the theory of the butterfly effect; this either means more, or hopefully less pressure on the San Andreas - which is my heaviest concern. While I'd love to be on an island; a lot of people are going to die when it goes.

Cheers for the heads up, always good to know what's going on.

I wonder what effect this will have on the Quique bend in Chile, and on the Chilean shoreline or mountains of Chile and Argentina.

So there were two in tha same region yesterday ( UTC TIME ZONE)

Sorry it's a screenshot. It's from my quake watch app. I'm on my iPad and the links don't take me to the event page I can link. Of course it can be searched on USGS site to confirm. I'm not clear if I set my app to my own time zone of PST, which is 8 hours behind of UTC. I stand corrected on any of this for those who wish to do so.

I believe the 6.8, as posted in thread title was the 7.1 downgraded to that and the 6.6 was a foreshock preceding that. However my app has not updated the downgrade, if it was indeed one.