Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Ovalle in Chile

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Ovalle in Chile. 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 23.8 km (15 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -71.487° West, -30.4° South, depth 23.8 km. Unique identifier: us10007sxd. Ids that are associated to the event: us10007sxd. The temblor was detected at 15:23:57 / 3:23 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 12/01/17 / 2017-01-12 19:23:57 / January 12, 2017 @ 7:23 pm UTC/GMT.

Event epicenter was 52 km (32 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from La Serena (c. 154 500 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop), 60 km (38 miles) from Monte Patria (c. 13 900 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Vicuña (c. 13 500 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Vicuña, Monte Patria, La Serena. Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 35 km NW of Ovalle, Chile.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-71.487° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-30.4° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	23.8 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	35km NW 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	2017-01-12 19:23:57	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-01-13 00:36:14	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		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	340	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		Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.26 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap		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	us10007sxd	Id of event.
Event Code	10007sxd	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10007sxd,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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