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Strong earthquake, 6.1 mag strikes near Ovalle in Chile

Posted by admin on September 19, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location -31.1104S, -71.6113WA earthquake magnitude 6.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 69 kilometers (43 miles) from Ovalle in Chile. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/09/15 / 2015-09-19 09:07:08 / September 19, 2015 @ 9:07 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -71.6113 West, latitude -31.1104 South, depth = 23.23 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 23.23 km (14 miles). Event id: us20003lsq. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20003lsq. The temblor was reported at 06:07:08 / 6:07 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Salamanca, Monte Patria, Illapel. Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Monte Patria (c. 13 900 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Salamanca (c. 13 300 pop).

Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. In the past 24 hours, there have been nineteen, in the last 10 days ninety-two, in the past 30 days ninety-two and in the last 365 days one hundred and ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world each year.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 69 km SW of Ovalle, Chile.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.6113° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -31.1104° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 23.23 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 69km SW 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 09:07:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-19 09:42:14 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -180 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 5 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 5.27 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 574 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 0.435 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.99 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 76 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwp The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us20003lsq Id of event.
Event Code 20003lsq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003lsq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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