Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag has occurred near Ovalle in Chile

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) was reported 54 kilometers (34 miles) from Ovalle in Chile on Saturday. The temblor was reported at 08:26:59 / 8:26 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -71.7646 West, latitude -30.5823 South, depth = 30.07 km. Global time and date of event 23/01/21 / 2021-01-23 08:26:59 / January 23, 2021 @ 8:26 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 30.07 km (19 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000d2mu. Id of event: us7000d2mu.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Coquimbo, Monte Patria, Ovalle. Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). The epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Monte Patria (c. 13 900 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 54 km W of Ovalle, Chile.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-71.7646° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-30.5823° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	30.07 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	54 km W 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	2021-01-23 08:26:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2021-01-24 05:47:27	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	222	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	0.144	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.92 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	167	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	us7000d2mu	Id of event.
Event Code	7000d2mu	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000d2mu,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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