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Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag strikes near Ovalle in Chile

Posted by admin on April 9, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -30.656S, -71.757WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 53 kilometers (33 miles) from Ovalle in Chile. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20005gll. Id of event: us20005gll. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/04/16 / 2016-04-09 17:30:03 / April 9, 2016 @ 5:30 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 33.3 km (21 miles). The temblor was picked up at 14:30:03 / 2:30 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -71.757 West, latitude -30.656 South, depth = 33.3 km.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 54 km (33 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Monte Patria (c. 13 900 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Monte Patria, Ovalle (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days four hundred and seventy-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 53 km W of Ovalle, Chile.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.757° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -30.656° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 33.3 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 53km W 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 2016-04-09 17:30:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-09 22:02:05 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 222 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.3 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 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 us20005gll Id of event.
Event Code 20005gll An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005gll, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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