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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Ovalle in Chile


Earthquake location -31.0668S, -71.5004WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 59 kilometers (37 miles) from Ovalle in Chile on Sunday. Exact location of event, longitude -71.5004 West, latitude -31.0668 South, depth = 55.74 km. Global time and date of event 29/10/17 / 2017-10-29 22:58:58 / October 29, 2017 @ 10:58 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 55.74 km (35 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us1000aye5. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000aye5. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:58:58 / 6:58 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Illapel, Monte Patria, Ovalle. Earthquake epicenter was 59 km (37 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Monte Patria (c. 13 900 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days sixty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 59 km SSW of Ovalle, Chile.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.5004° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -31.0668° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 55.74 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 59km SSW 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 2017-10-29 22:58:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-29 23:08:28 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 284 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 0.408 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 96 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 us1000aye5 Id of event.
Event Code 1000aye5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000aye5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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