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Strong earthquake: M6.7 quake has struck near Coquimbo in Chile


Earthquake location -30.0738S, -71.4234WA earthquake with magnitude 6.7 (ml/mb) was reported 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Coquimbo in Chile on Saturday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/01/19 / 2019-01-20 01:32:51 / January 20, 2019 @ 1:32 am. A tsunami warning has been issued near Coquimbo in Chile (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us2000j6hy. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00pllwap, pt19020000, us2000j6hy. The temblor was reported at 21:32:51 / 9:32 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -71.4234 West, latitude -30.0738 South, depth = 53.04 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 53.04 km (33 miles).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Monte Patria, Vicuña, Ovalle (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 16 km (10 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from La Serena (c. 154 500 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Monte Patria (c. 13 900 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Vicuña (c. 13 500 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days sixty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 15 km SSW of Coquimbo, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.4234° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -30.0738° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 53.04 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km 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 2019-01-20 01:32:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-20 02:14:46 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 349 The total number of felt reports
CDI 7.1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 5.85 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 1 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 938 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 ,at,pt,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 0.549 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 31 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000j6hy Id of event.
Event Code 2000j6hy An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00pllwap,pt19020000,us2000j6hy, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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