Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Ovalle in Chile

A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Ovalle in Chile on Monday. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:21:17 / 12:21 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us20006hca. Ids that are associated to the event: us20006hca. Exact location of event, depth 40.18 km, -71.4348° West, -30.7241° South. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 40.18 km (25 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/07/16 / 2016-07-25 04:21:17 / July 25, 2016 @ 4:21 am.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was La Serena, Coquimbo, Monte Patria (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 86 km (54 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from La Serena (c. 154 500 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Monte Patria (c. 13 900 pop).

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

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 26 km WSW of Ovalle, Chile.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-71.4348° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-30.7241° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	40.18 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	26km 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	2016-07-25 04:21:17	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-07-25 05:10:23	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	271	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	0.179	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.1 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	101	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	us20006hca	Id of event.
Event Code	20006hca	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20006hca,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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