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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Ovalle in Chile

Posted by admin on April 25, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -30.9435S, -71.7591WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 65 kilometers (40 miles) from Ovalle in Chile on Monday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 23.87 km (15 miles). Event id: us10005bhz. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10005bhz. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/04/16 / 2016-04-25 22:20:49 / April 25, 2016 @ 10:20 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -71.7591 West, latitude -30.9435 South, depth = 23.87 km. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:20:49 / 6:20 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Monte Patria, Ovalle (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). The epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Monte Patria (c. 13 900 pop).

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 five, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days five hundred and fifty-nine 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. 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: 65 km SW of Ovalle, Chile.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.7591° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -30.9435° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 23.87 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 65km 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 2016-04-25 22:20:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-25 23:18:23 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 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 284 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 0.81 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 131 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 us10005bhz Id of event.
Event Code 10005bhz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005bhz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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