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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 30 km WSW of Ovalle, Chile


Earthquake location -30.699S, -71.4952WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Ovalle in Chile on Tuesday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 47.24 km (29 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us10003yy2. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10003yy2. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 10:16:27 / 10:16 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 47.24 km, -71.4952° West, -30.699° South. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/11/15 / 2015-11-17 13:16:27 / November 17, 2015 @ 1:16 pm.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was La Serena, Coquimbo, Monte Patria (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 84 km (52 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from La Serena (c. 154 500 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Monte Patria (c. 13 900 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).

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

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 30 km WSW of Ovalle, Chile. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.4952° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -30.699° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 47.24 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 30km 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 2015-11-17 13:16:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-17 15:33:41 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -180 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 312 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 0.123 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 58 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 us10003yy2 Id of event.
Event Code 10003yy2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003yy2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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