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Minor earthquake 3.9 mag, 38 km SW of Ovalle, Chile

Posted by admin on September 19, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -30.8755S, -71.4461WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Ovalle in Chile. The temblor was picked up at 19:50:10 / 7:50 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/09/18 / 2018-09-18 23:50:10 / September 18, 2018 @ 11:50 pm. Event id: us2000hgwb. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000hgwb. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 47.58 km (30 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -71.4461° West, -30.8755° South, depth 47.58 km.

Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 39 km (24 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Monte Patria (c. 13 900 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Illapel, Monte Patria, Ovalle.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fifty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 38 km SW of Ovalle, Chile.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.4461° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -30.8755° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 47.58 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 38km 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 2018-09-18 23:50:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-19 00:24:42 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 234 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 0.258 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 77 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 us2000hgwb Id of event.
Event Code 2000hgwb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000hgwb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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