Minor earthquake, 3.7 mag strikes near Ovalle in Chile

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) was reported 146 km WSW of Ovalle, Chile (91 miles) on Friday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5.87 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -72.7045 West, latitude -30.8568 South, depth = 5.87 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/02/16 / 2016-02-26 23:34:06 / February 26, 2016 @ 11:34 pm. The 3.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:34:06 / 6:34 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us10004u1q. Unique identifier: us10004u1q.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days three hundred and fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 146 km WSW of Ovalle, Chile. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-72.7045° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-30.8568° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.87 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	146km 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	2016-02-26 23:34:06	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-03-12 04:22:20	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	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	211	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	0.938	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.8 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	147	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mwr	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us10004u1q	Id of event.
Event Code	10004u1q	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10004u1q,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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