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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Ovalle in Chile

Posted by admin on September 27, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location -30.6556S, -72.0213WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 78 kilometers (48 miles) from Ovalle in Chile. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 11:44:29 / 11:44 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -72.0213 West, latitude -30.6556 South, depth = 11.05 km. Unique identifier: us20003pis. Ids that are associated to the event: us20003pis. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/09/15 / 2015-09-27 16:44:29 / September 27, 2015 @ 4:44 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 11.05 km (7 miles).

Event epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ovalle (min 5000 pop).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 78 km W of Ovalle, Chile.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -72.0213° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -30.6556° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.05 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 78km 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 2015-09-27 16:44:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-27 20:14:04 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 298 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 0.333 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.12 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 195 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 us20003pis Id of event.
Event Code 20003pis An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003pis, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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