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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Ovalle in Chile

Posted by admin on July 18, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -30.7072S, -71.843WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 62 kilometers (39 miles) from Ovalle in Chile on Monday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20006fj1. Id of event: us20006fj1. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 27.88 km (17 miles). The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:58:19 / 9:58 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -71.843° West, latitude -30.7072° South, depth = 27.88 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 18/07/16 / 2016-07-18 13:58:19 / July 18, 2016 @ 1:58 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Coquimbo, Monte Patria, Ovalle (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 97 km (60 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Monte Patria (c. 13 900 pop).

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

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 62 km WSW of Ovalle, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.843° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -30.7072° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 27.88 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 62km WSW 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 2016-07-18 13:58:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-18 15:30:53 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 326 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 0.182 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.01 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 88 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 us20006fj1 Id of event.
Event Code 20006fj1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20006fj1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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