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Moderate earthquake, 5.9 mag has occurred near Ovalle in Chile

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A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.9 (ml/mb) was reported 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Ovalle in Chile on Saturday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10003vij. Id of event: us10003vij. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -71.3365 West, latitude -30.735 South, depth = 3.75 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 3.75 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 07/11/15 / 2015-11-07 10:53:38 / November 7, 2015 @ 10:53 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 07:53:38 / 7:53 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Illapel, Vicuña, La Serena. Earthquake epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from La Serena (c. 154 500 pop), 20 km (12 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Monte Patria (c. 13 900 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Vicuña (c. 13 500 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days fifty-five and in the last 365 days three hundred and twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 19 km SW of Ovalle, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-71.3365° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-30.735° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	3.75 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	19km 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	2015-11-07 10:53:38	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-11-07 11:20:22	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-180	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	3	The total number of felt reports
CDI	5.3	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	7.72	The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level	yellow	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	652	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	0.727	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.83 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	99	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	us10003vij	Id of event.
Event Code	10003vij	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10003vij,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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