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Moderate earthquake: M5.5 quake has struck near Ovalle in Chile

Posted by admin on October 9, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location -30.7179S, -71.8037WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 59 kilometers (37 miles) from Ovalle in Chile. The temblor was detected at 20:28:23 / 8:28 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 20.71 km (13 miles). Event id: us10003it9. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10003it9. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -71.8037 West, latitude -30.7179 South, depth = 20.71 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/09/15 / 2015-09-16 23:28:23 / September 16, 2015 @ 11:28 pm.

Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 96 km (60 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop), 105 km (65 miles) from La Serena (c. 154 500 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Monte Patria (c. 13 900 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was La Serena, Coquimbo, Monte Patria.

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 59 km WSW of Ovalle, 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 -71.8037° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -30.7179° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 20.71 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 59km 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 2015-09-16 23:28:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-10-09 04:40:01 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -180 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 4.12 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 0.151 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.67 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 112 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 us10003it9 Id of event.
Event Code 10003it9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003it9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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