Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Earthquake breaking news, Light World Earthquakes Magnitude 4-4.9

Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Ovalle in Chile


Earthquake location -30.7963S, -71.4905WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Ovalle in Chile. The epicenter was at a depth of 34.47 km (21 miles). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:07:13 / 10:07 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us70003e09. Unique identifier: us70003e09. Exact location, longitude -71.4905° West, latitude -30.7963° South, depth = 34.47 km. Global time and date of event 29/04/19 / 2019-04-29 14:07:13 / April 29, 2019 @ 2:07 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Event epicenter was 95 km (59 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Monte Patria (c. 13 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Coquimbo, Monte Patria, Ovalle (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

Did you feel anything?

How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 35 km SW of Ovalle, Chile.

Copyright © 2019 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.4905° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -30.7963° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 34.47 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 35km 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 2019-04-29 14:07:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-29 14:26:37 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 298 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 0.174 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 131 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 us70003e09 Id of event.
Event Code 70003e09 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003e09, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply