Moderate earthquake, 5.8 mag was detected near La Serena in Chile

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.8 (ml/mb) strikes 63 kilometers (39 miles) from La Serena in Chile on Wednesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 43.8 km (27 miles). Exact location, longitude -71.214° West, latitude -29.3296° South, depth = 43.8 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/10/20 / 2020-10-28 14:53:10 / October 28, 2020 @ 2:53 pm. The temblor was reported at 14:53:10 / 2:53 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us7000c6u9. Event ids that are associated: us7000c6u9.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Vallenar, Vicuña, Coquimbo (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 70 km (44 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from La Serena (c. 154 500 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Vallenar (c. 44 900 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Vicuña (c. 13 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. 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: 63 km N of La Serena, Chile.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-71.214° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-29.3296° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	43.8 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	63 km N of La Serena, Chile	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-10-28 14:53:10	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-10-28 15:17:04	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	4	The total number of felt reports
CDI	5.2	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	5.207	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	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	520	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	0.55	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	91	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	us7000c6u9	Id of event.
Event Code	7000c6u9	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000c6u9,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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