Moderate earthquake 5 mag, 38 km SW of Ovalle, Chile

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Ovalle in Chile on Monday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20006hfj. Id of event: us20006hfj. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 37.87 km (24 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -71.5205 West, latitude -30.8021 South, depth = 37.87 km. Global time and date of event 25/07/16 / 2016-07-25 14:59:29 / July 25, 2016 @ 2:59 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 10:59:29 / 10:59 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 96 km (60 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from La Serena (c. 154 500 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Monte Patria (c. 13 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was La Serena, Illapel, Coquimbo (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days five hundred and twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 38 km SW of Ovalle, Chile.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-71.5205° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-30.8021° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	37.87 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	38km 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	2016-07-25 14:59:29	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-07-25 15:17:38	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	385	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	0.161	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.81 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	79	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	us20006hfj	Id of event.
Event Code	20006hfj	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20006hfj,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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