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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Ovalle in Chile

Posted by admin on May 18, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -30.6638S, -71.6996WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 48 kilometers (30 miles) from Ovalle in Chile on Wednesday. Unique identifier: us10005ibs. Ids that are associated to the event: us10005ibs. Global time and date of event 18/05/16 / 2016-05-18 21:04:13 / May 18, 2016 @ 9:04 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 30.07 km (19 miles). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:04:13 / 5:04 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 30.07 km, -71.6996° West, -30.6638° South. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Coquimbo, Monte Patria, Ovalle (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 86 km (54 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop), 71 km (44 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 one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days four hundred and ninety earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 48 km W of Ovalle, Chile. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.6996° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -30.6638° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 30.07 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 48km 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 2016-05-18 21:04:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-18 21:23:14 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 298 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 0.056 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 171 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 us10005ibs Id of event.
Event Code 10005ibs An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005ibs, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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