Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag has occurred near Ovalle in Chile

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) strikes 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Ovalle in Chile on Friday. Id of earthquake: us10008dmt. Event ids that are associated: us10008dmt. Exact location of event, depth 45.75 km, -71.4078° West, -30.7671° South. Exact time and date of earthquake 31/03/17 / 2017-03-31 18:44:40 / March 31, 2017 @ 6:44 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 14:44:40 / 2:44 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 45.75 km (28 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Vicuña, Illapel, La Serena (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 91 km (56 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from La Serena (c. 154 500 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop), 99 km (61 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Monte Patria (c. 13 900 pop), 105 km (65 miles) from Vicuña (c. 13 500 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes 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 one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 27 km SW of Ovalle, Chile. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-71.4078° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-30.7671° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	45.75 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	27km 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	2017-03-31 18:44:40	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-03-31 18:58:32	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	432	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	0.216	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.84 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	108	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	us10008dmt	Id of event.
Event Code	10008dmt	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10008dmt,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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