Light earthquake, 4.8 mag has occurred near Ovalle in Chile

A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) strikes 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Ovalle in Chile on Thursday. Unique identifier: us10003ny7. Ids that are associated to the event: us10003ny7. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 26.69 km (17 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 15/10/15 / 2015-10-15 19:23:21 / October 15, 2015 @ 7:23 pm. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:23:21 / 4:23 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -71.7171° West, -30.5679° South, depth 26.69 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was La Serena, Coquimbo, Monte Patria (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 77 km (48 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from La Serena (c. 154 500 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Monte Patria (c. 13 900 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days twenty-five, in the past 30 days two hundred and fourty-nine and in the last 365 days two hundred and seventy-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 49 km W of Ovalle, Chile. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-71.7171° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-30.5679° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	26.69 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	49km 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	2015-10-15 19:23:21	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-10-15 19:40:38	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		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	354	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	0.127	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.91 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	89	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	us10003ny7	Id of event.
Event Code	10003ny7	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10003ny7,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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