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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Coquimbo in Chile

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Coquimbo in Chile. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/02/17 / 2017-02-16 00:19:20 / February 16, 2017 @ 12:19 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us20008k40. Unique identifier: us20008k40. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -71.3736° West, -30.052° South, depth 45.65 km. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:19:20 / 8:19 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 45.65 km (28 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). The epicenter was 11 km (7 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop), 20 km (13 miles) from La Serena (c. 154 500 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Monte Patria (c. 13 900 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Vicuña (c. 13 500 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Monte Patria, Vicuña, Ovalle.

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

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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. 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: 11 km SSW of Coquimbo, Chile.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-71.3736° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-30.052° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	45.65 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	11km SSW of Coquimbo, Chile	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-02-16 00:19:20	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-02-16 00:33:00	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.1	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	312	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	0.177	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	91	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	us20008k40	Id of event.
Event Code	20008k40	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20008k40,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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