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Moderate earthquake, 5.6 mag was detected near Ovalle in Chile

Posted by admin on September 19, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location -30.569S, -72.1668WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.6 (ml/mb) strikes 92 kilometers (57 miles) from Ovalle in Chile on Saturday. The epicenter was at a depth of 14.14 km (9 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude -72.1668° West, latitude -30.569° South, depth = 14.14 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/09/15 / 2015-09-19 13:08:57 / September 19, 2015 @ 1:08 pm. The 5.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:08:57 / 8:08 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us20003lv1. Event ids that are associated: us20003lv1.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Coquimbo, Ovalle (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 105 km (65 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-four, in the last 10 days seventy-five, in the past 30 days seventy-five and in the last 365 days ninety-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 92 km W of Ovalle, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -72.1668° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -30.569° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 14.14 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 92km W of Ovalle, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-09-19 13:08:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-19 13:22:40 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 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 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 482 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 0.47 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.02 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 88 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 us20003lv1 Id of event.
Event Code 20003lv1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003lv1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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