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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag was detected near Ovalle in Chile

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A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 47 kilometers (29 miles) from Ovalle in Chile. Exact location of earthquake, -71.637° West, -30.4021° South, depth 28.06 km. The temblor was picked up at 19:11:41 / 7:11 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/12/16 / 2016-12-16 23:11:41 / December 16, 2016 @ 11:11 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us200081rv. Unique identifier: us200081rv. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 28.06 km (17 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Vicuña, Monte Patria, La Serena. Epicenter of the earthquake was 58 km (36 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from La Serena (c. 154 500 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Monte Patria (c. 13 900 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Vicuña (c. 13 500 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 47 km WNW of Ovalle, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-71.637° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-30.4021° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	28.06 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	47km WNW 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	2016-12-16 23:11:41	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-12-16 23:28:29	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.8	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	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	0.592	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.79 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	85	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	us200081rv	Id of event.
Event Code	200081rv	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us200081rv,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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