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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag has occurred near Coquimbo in Chile


Earthquake location -29.8612S, -71.4948WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Coquimbo in Chile on Wednesday. All ids that are associated to the event: us10005gn7. Unique identifier: us10005gn7. Exact location of event, depth 44.56 km, -71.4948° West, -29.8612° South. The temblor was detected at 18:41:55 / 6:41 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/05/16 / 2016-05-11 22:41:55 / May 11, 2016 @ 10:41 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 44.56 km (28 miles).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ovalle, Vicuña, La Serena (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 18 km (11 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from La Serena (c. 154 500 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Vicuña (c. 13 500 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days three hundred and sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 17 km NW of Coquimbo, Chile. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.4948° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -29.8612° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 44.56 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17km NW of Coquimbo, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-05-11 22:41:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-25 02:10:45 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 259 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 0.229 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 182 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 us10005gn7 Id of event.
Event Code 10005gn7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005gn7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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