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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Ovalle in Chile

Posted by admin on September 24, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location -30.9457S, -72.694WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 148 km WSW of Ovalle, Chile (92 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/09/15 / 2015-09-24 00:11:26 / September 24, 2015 @ 12:11 am. Exact location, longitude -72.694° West, latitude -30.9457° South, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:11:26 / 7:11 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Id of earthquake: us20003niz. Event ids that are associated: us20003niz.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been eleven, in the last 10 days one hundred and fourty, in the past 30 days one hundred and fourty and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 148 km WSW of Ovalle, Chile.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -72.694° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -30.9457° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 148km WSW 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 2015-09-24 00:11:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-24 00:41:41 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 271 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 0.95 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 87 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us20003niz Id of event.
Event Code 20003niz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003niz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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