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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Ovalle in Chile

Posted by admin on January 21, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location -30.6776S, -71.4382WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Ovalle in Chile. Exact location of event, depth 47.77 km, -71.4382° West, -30.6776° South. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us10007un2. Ids that are associated to the event: us10007un2. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 47.77 km (30 miles). The temblor was picked up at 13:03:55 / 1:03 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 21/01/17 / 2017-01-21 17:03:55 / January 21, 2017 @ 5:03 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was La Serena, Coquimbo, Monte Patria (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 81 km (50 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from La Serena (c. 154 500 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop), 46 km (29 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. Every 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 three, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. 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: 24 km WSW of Ovalle, Chile.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.4382° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -30.6776° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 47.77 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24km 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 2017-01-21 17:03:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-21 19:05:10 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 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 0.645 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 114 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 us10007un2 Id of event.
Event Code 10007un2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007un2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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