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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag was detected near Ovalle in Chile


Earthquake location -30.817S, -71.4785WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 36 kilometers (22 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 reported at 16:38:22 / 4:38 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 50.13 km (31 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us10003x44. Unique identifier: us10003x44. Exact location of event, longitude -71.4785 West, latitude -30.817 South, depth = 50.13 km. Global time and date of event 10/11/15 / 2015-11-10 19:38:22 / November 10, 2015 @ 7:38 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Monte Patria, Ovalle (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 36 km (22 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Monte Patria (c. 13 900 pop). Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eighteen, in the past 30 days fifty-one and in the last 365 days three hundred and fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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. 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: 36 km SW of Ovalle, Chile.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.4785° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -30.817° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 50.13 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 36km 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 2015-11-10 19:38:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-10 20:09:35 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 259 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 0.196 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.89 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 132 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 us10003x44 Id of event.
Event Code 10003x44 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003x44, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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