Light earthquake: M4.9 quake has struck near Ovalle in Chile

A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Ovalle in Chile. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:28:11 / 10:28 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 48.6 km (30 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -71.3993 West, latitude -30.4676 South, depth = 48.6 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us10004w9z. Ids that are associated to the event: us10004w9z. Exact time and date of earthquake 09/03/16 / 2016-03-09 13:28:11 / March 9, 2016 @ 1:28 pm UTC/GMT.

The epicenter was 57 km (36 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from La Serena (c. 154 500 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Monte Patria (c. 13 900 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Vicuña (c. 13 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Vicuña, La Serena, Coquimbo (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days three hundred and sixty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 23 km NW of Ovalle, Chile.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-71.3993° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-30.4676° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	48.6 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	23km NW 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	2016-03-09 13:28:11	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-03-09 13:46:45	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	370	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	0.289	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.56 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	98	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	us10004w9z	Id of event.
Event Code	10004w9z	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10004w9z,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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