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Strong earthquake, 6.8 mag strikes near Ovalle in Chile

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A earthquake with magnitude 6.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 47 kilometers (29 miles) from Ovalle in Chile. A tsunami warning has been issued near Ovalle in Chile (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 04:31:42 / 4:31 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 36.3 km (23 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us10003vgt. Ids that are associated to the event: pt15311052, at00nxfowl, us10003vgt. Exact location, longitude -71.544° West, latitude -30.9064° South, depth = 36.3 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/11/15 / 2015-11-07 07:31:42 / November 7, 2015 @ 7:31 am.

Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Vicuña, La Serena, Salamanca. Event epicenter was 108 km (67 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop), 115 km (71 miles) from La Serena (c. 154 500 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Monte Patria (c. 13 900 pop), 125 km (78 miles) from Vicuña (c. 13 500 pop), 112 km (69 miles) from Salamanca (c. 13 300 pop).

Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days fifty-seven and in the last 365 days three hundred and sixty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 47 km SW of Ovalle, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Chile Coquimbo Illapel La Serena Monte Patria Ovalle Salamanca Vicuña

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	6.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-71.544° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-30.9064° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	36.3 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	47km 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 07:31:42	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-11-07 07:56:33	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-180	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	73	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.7	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	6.28	The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level	green	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	1	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	746	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	,pt,at,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	0.244	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.19 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	54	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mwp	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us10003vgt	Id of event.
Event Code	10003vgt	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pt15311052,at00nxfowl,us10003vgt,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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