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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag has occurred near Ovalle in Chile


Earthquake location -31.0406S, -71.9198WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 84 kilometers (52 miles) from Ovalle in Chile. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 20.22 km (13 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us200062h7. Id of event: us200062h7. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -71.9198 West, latitude -31.0406 South, depth = 20.22 km. The temblor was reported at 02:06:46 / 2:06 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/06/16 / 2016-06-07 07:06:46 / June 7, 2016 @ 7:06 am.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ovalle (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 84 km (52 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 six, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days five hundred and ninety-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 84 km SW of Ovalle, Chile.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.9198° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -31.0406° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 20.22 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 84km 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 2016-06-07 07:06:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-24 10:08:02 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 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 0.44 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.06 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 183 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 us200062h7 Id of event.
Event Code 200062h7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200062h7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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