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Light earthquake 4.1 mag, 48 km SW of Ovalle, Chile


Earthquake location -30.9325S, -71.5218WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 48 kilometers (30 miles) from Ovalle in Chile. Event id: us2000g6f5. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000g6f5. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 43.52 km (27 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 16/07/18 / 2018-07-16 18:34:41 / July 16, 2018 @ 6:34 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:34:41 / 2:34 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -71.5218° West, latitude -30.9325° South, depth = 43.52 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Illapel, Monte Patria, Ovalle. Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 48 km (30 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Monte Patria (c. 13 900 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 48 km SW of Ovalle, Chile. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.5218° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -30.9325° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 43.52 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 48km 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 2018-07-16 18:34:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-16 21:17:43 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 259 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 0.275 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.71 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 157 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000g6f5 Id of event.
Event Code 2000g6f5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000g6f5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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