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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag was detected near Ovalle in Chile


Earthquake location -30.7538S, -71.7939WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 59 kilometers (37 miles) from Ovalle in Chile. Id of earthquake: us20006fgd. Event ids that are associated: us20006fgd. The epicenter was at a depth of 26.94 km (17 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -71.7939 West, latitude -30.7538 South, depth = 26.94 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 02:58:50 / July 18, 2016 @ 2:58 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 22:58:50 / 10:58 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Coquimbo, Monte Patria, Ovalle (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 99 km (62 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Monte Patria (c. 13 900 pop). Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days five hundred and fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 59 km WSW of Ovalle, Chile.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.7939° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -30.7538° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 26.94 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 59km 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 02:58:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-18 03:24:39 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.8 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 371 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 0.158 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.07 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 83 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 us20006fgd Id of event.
Event Code 20006fgd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20006fgd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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