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Moderate earthquake, 5.5 mag was detected near offshore Coquimbo, Chile

Posted by admin on September 17, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location -30.9516S, -71.9819WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, offshore Coquimbo, Chile kilometers (0 miles) from offshore Coquimbo, Chile. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:19:15 / 2:19 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -71.9819° West, -30.9516° South, depth 10 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 17/09/15 / 2015-09-17 14:19:15 / September 17, 2015 @ 2:19 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20003kld. Id of event: us20003kld. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop), 108 km (67 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop), 102 km (63 miles) from Monte Patria (c. 13 900 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Illapel, Monte Patria, Ovalle.

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-one, in the last 10 days fourty-one, in the past 30 days fourty-one and in the last 365 days fifty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: offshore Coquimbo, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.9819° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -30.9516° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place offshore Coquimbo, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-09-17 14:19:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-17 14:39:49 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 3.95 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 465 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 8.746 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 131 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 us20003kld Id of event.
Event Code 20003kld An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003kld, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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